EXHIBITION “FUTURISMO: THE 1910s AND 1920s”

Sixty-four masterpieces recounting twenty years of the first Italian and international avant-garde

Palatine Chapel of the Maschio Angioino, from October 19, 2018, to February 17, 2019

Extraordinary works by Boccioni, Balla, Carrà, Severini and others lead us to discover, through three new and disruptive creative dimensions, the first and most important European avant-garde.

“FUTURISMO: The 1910s and 1920s” is an exhibition created exclusively for Naples. Scheduled from October 19, 2018, to February 17, 2019, in the fourteenth-century Palatine Chapel of the Maschio Angioino, it presents, for the first time together, sixty-four masterpieces that recount twenty years of the first Italian and international avant-garde.

Promoted by the City of Naples – Department of Culture and Tourism, and organized by C.O.R. – Create Organize Realize, the exhibition, curated by Giancarlo Carpi with Francesca Villanti, hosts important works from the 1910s to the 1920s, admired in some of the main historical groups of the Futurist movement.
Among these are Portrait of Augusta Popoff, 1906, by Umberto Boccioni; Argentine Tango (Dance), 1912, by Gino Severini; Motorcyclist, 1914, by Gerardo Dottori; Bouquet of Flowers, 1917, by Julius Evola; Space Construction Landscape, 1921, by Enrico Prampolini; Rhythms of Rocks and Sea, 1929, by Benedetta; and Woman and Environment, 1922, by De Pistoris.
Among other curiosities, Fortunato Depero’s Pupazzo Campari, the wooden sculpture made for Campari, is an early anticipation of Pop Art.