Futurism Exhibition in Rome

From March 10 2009 to May 24 2009, at the Scuderie del Quirinale, http://www.scuderiequirinale.it

In an itinerary that is moving and exceptional due to the rarity of the works on loan from the main international museums and collections, the show will include the most important futurist masterpieces, together with key works by great 20th century masters such as Boccioni, Carrà, Severini, Balla, Picasso, Duchamp, Braque, Léger, the Delaunays, Larionov, Gonèarova, Kupka, Russolo, Villon, Del Marle, Epstein, Gleizes, Popova, Soffici, Malevi, Ekster, Bomberg, Picabia, Metzinger and Macdonald-Wright. The exhibition covers the philosophic contributions made by Futurism and Cubism to the birth of Russian Cubo-Futurism, English Vorticism and American Synchromism, underscoring the basic contribution of the Italian avant-garde with Marinetti's ingenious insight concerning a new synthesis of space and time. The futurist movement, celebrated in its essence, in fact remains a primitive thrust capable of attracting and seducing entire contemporary generations with the vital impulse that filters from its seductive multicolour visions, fragmented in the explosion of an inextinguishable propagating energy.