Month: April 2004

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Umberto Brunelleschi(1879-1949)
Art Deco

Born 1879 in Montemurdo in Tuscany, Brunelleschi studied in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator and costume designer.
He was a major contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications

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1.Sheherezade 2. L’Indiscreet
3. Robe du Soir
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Fortunato Depero – "Towards Futurism" 
(Italian Futurista)

Fortunato Depero was born on March 30th 1892 in Fondo (Trentino)
and died in Rovereto on November 28th 1960.
..Still in 1913 he travelled to Florence, together with his friend Tullio
Garbari: there he found a copy of the paper "Lacerba" and began his
approach to Futurism. In June, the same year, he published a small book
entitled Spezzature: Impressioni – Segni – Ritmi, a collection of prose, poetry,
grotesque and symbolist drawings. Then, after another exhibition in Rovereto,
early in December we find him in Rome where he visited the exhibition of
Boccioni at Sprovieri’s Gallery, being deeply impressed. In February 1914 he was
again in Rome at Sprovieri’s and came into contact with Balla, Cangiullo and
Marinetti, and on March 28th he participated to the first dynamic and synoptic
declaiming of the poem "Piedigrotta" by Marinetti and Cangiullo, the
author. From April 13th until May 25th he took part to the "Esposizione
Libera Futurista Internazionale" at Sprovieri’s gallery…"

 

1. Mechanics of dancers – 1917
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2. Bird’s movement (Animal abstraction) – 1916
3. Clavel inside the cableway station – 1918
4. Venetian rhythms – 1924
5. High Landscape of steel – 1927
6. Advertising Gallery

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Gianni Mattioli collection

The paintings displayed here belong to the collection of Gianni Mattioli: spanning the years 1910 to 1921, they include masterpieces of Italian Futurism.
Born in Milan, Gianni Mattioli (1903-1977) became fascinated by Futurist ideas
as a very young man after reading Umberto Boccioni’s Pittura Scultura Futuriste

  

 

1) Gino Severini Blue Dancer, 1912,  2) Umberto Boccioni Materia, 1912,
3)  Carlo Carra’ Interventionist Demonstration, 1914, 
4) Giacomo Balla Mercury Passing Before the Sun, 1914