“Universo Futurista“ is the name of the exhibition held at the Fondazione Massimo and Sonia Cirulli. The exhibition presents a selection of the Cirulli Foundation collection’s works and focuses on the central themes of Futurist aesthetics such as the hymn to the creative vitality, playfulness and imagination of an art that cheers the world by recreating it integrally, recovering the words of the Manifesto “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe” written in 1915 by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero.

Futurist aesthetics moves its steps from a new way of conceiving artistic creation, which goes beyond the boundaries of traditional arts and involves daily life as a whole to become “total art“, creating a very close link between art and life. Futurist universe deepens this new aesthetic concept through the careful selection of paintings, sculptures, design objects, design drawings, photographs and photomontages, advertising posters and autograph documents of all kinds made by futurist artists from 1909 up to the end of the 30s twentieth century.

Through an extraordinary variety of works by the Fondazione Cirulli, the exhibition itinerary proposes “settings” dedicated to themes dear to futurists such as speed, energy, progress, mechanized man and home design, organized around five units main structures: the air conquer room, the wall of posters, the “constellations”, the “orbits” and the “spaces”. On show, a nucleus of over 200 works realized in different materials, shapes, and measures created by artists such as Balla and Boccioni.

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