Analogies – the futurists and european avant-garden at Futurism&co gallery in Rome
from 7 October 2021
FUTURISM&CO Via Mario de Fiori 68, Rome
Curated by Andrea Baffoni
An unprecedented look at the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century is proposed by the Futurism & Co Gallery (Rome, via Mario de ‘Fiori), with the exhibition “Analogies”. A path that, as evidenced by the title, places the great masters of Futurism in relation to as many fundamental exponents of the international avant-garde. A stimulating exercise through which to verify how much, at the beginning of the last century, the intuition of the new was able to move between the various nations, mutually influencing the artists who were making modernity. In particular, thanks to the tireless activism of the members of the movement founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
1.Giacomo Balla
Compenetrazione iridescente - studio, 1912 ca Acquarello e matita su carta, 10,5 x 12 cm
2.Giacomo Balla
Studio di compenetrazione iridescente, 1912 ca Acquarello e matita su carta, 15 x 11 cm
3.Giacomo Balla
Compenetrazione iridescente, 1912 Tempera su cartoncino, 10 x 15 cmWe can thus find ourselves in the presence of a Giacomo Balla put in relation with Picasso or Kandinskij, or even of a Carrà next to Paul Klee. As well as a Depero in dialogue with Masson and Kokoschka, a Boccioni with Kupka, a Dottori with Delaunay or a Prampolini with Gleizes.
1.Farfa Girotondo nell’asilo, 1923 Collage e tempera su carta, 29 x 24 cm
2.Carlo Carrà Cavallo e cavaliere, 1915 Collage e tempera su cartone, 31 x 48,5 cm
3.Enrico Prampolini Ritmi spaziali, 1913 Tempera e collage su cartone, 48 x 31 cm
Enrico Prampolini Simultaneità architettonica, 1921 ca. Olio su tavola, 50,8 x 82,4 cm
Baldessari R. M. (Roberto Marcello Baldessari) Salotto giapponese, 1918 Olio su tela, 110 x 75 cmStimulating analogies, sometimes capable of pushing us towards parallels that perhaps we would never have thought of. Like the one that, for the first time, proposes the presence of an anonymous person from Casa Balla, one of the many artists who absorbed the futurist verb by frequenting Giacomo Balla’s home-studio, names that remained mostly unknown but all part of the futurist avant-garde as an example of an artistic model that has been able to go beyond individual personalities, well beyond its temporal and territorial limits.
1.Mario Sironi Studio di ballerina, 1915 ca Inchiostro su carta, 26 x 18 cm
2.Gino Severini La modista, 1915 Matita su carta, 27 x 20,2 cm
3.Gino Severini Le tango argentin (danse), 1913 China su carta, 32,5 x 24,5 cm
1.Georges Valmier Paysage et foret, 1924 Gouache su carta, 24,5 x 32,5 cm
2.Albert Gleizes Descente de la croix, 1928 Gouache su carta, 30,5 x 35,6 cm
Fortunato Depero Lettrice e ricamatrice automatiche, 1921-22 Olio su tela, 75 x 100 cm
1.André Masson La famille en metamorphose, 1929 Gouache su cartoncino intelato, 24 x 63 cm
2.Oskar Kokoschka Zwei weibliche Figuren, 1953 Pastelli colorati su carta, 20 x 30 cmBorn from a project of Futurism cultural association, the exhibition is accompanied by an elegant catalog in whose explanatory essay the art historian Andrea Baffoni offers a reading of the entire path through a thematic scan where attention is paid to individual elements like the body, the object, the color, the shape, the space. The publication is completed by the essays by Massimo Duranti and Roberto Brunelli giving further account of the multiple interactions proposed by these stimulating comparisons.
