Info...
Articolo di: Redazione AIDANEWS
Pubblicato il: 01.02.2004
In breve:
This highly focused exhibition revolves around one seminal masterpiece-Materia-created in 1912 by Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni. Through an exploration of Materia and related paintings and sculptures
Working in Milan, Boccioni drew inspiration from the city's rapid modernization and represented the Futurist vision of the new metropolis. Of equal importance was the Parisian avant-garde,
Ricerca
Cerca nel sito
Pubblicità
A.Miatello,Les armes nucléaires en droit international,Peter Lang, Berna,1987,p.746; A.M.,International Nuclear Agreements, A quadrilingual Glossary, Peter Lang,1988;A.M.United Nations Organization, Multilingual Glossary,Peter Lang,1988;La non-prolifération des armes nucléaires et l'ambiguité de la filière surgénératrice nucléaire européenne,Peter Lang, 1986;
--- Jeanne Belhumeur,Droit international de la Mode,Canova, Treviso,2000,p.300;J.B.,Giorgione e la Pala di Castelfranco. Aspetti storici, scientifici e giuridici (vol.1).Aspetti culturali (vol.2),Atti del 37.Incontro pubblico AIDA per la salvaguardia della Pala, Treviso, Ca'dei Carraresi,1997;J.B. Il Premio Letterario Campiello edizione 1997-1998 in Internet.Dossier curato da J. Belhumeur per il portale Cyberlogic.it;J.B.,Sauvegarde du Patrimoine artistique mondial, Recueil des actes du syposium AIDA de Venise,1995,p.130;J.B. e altri,Statuti dell'Unione Mondiale degli Autori del Cinema e dell'Alta Corte Internazionale per la Libertà d'espressione,51.Mostra del Cinema, Venezia,1995;J.B. e Ch. Dominicé,Cours d'organisation internationale,Genève, Uni-Droit,1994-95;J.B.,Les déplacements et les retentions illicites d'enfants à l'étranger par un des parents,IUHEI,Genève,1988,p.109.
Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris
DATES: February 6-May 9, 2004
VENUE: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York City
New York, 2004-02-02. This highly focused exhibition revolves around one seminal masterpiece-Materia-created in 1912 by Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni. Through an exploration of Materia and related paintings and sculptures by Boccioni's European contemporaries, this exhibition highlights the pivotal role that Italian Futurism played within the history of modernism. The exhibition also includes drawings and archival documentation in order to provide an unprecedented understanding of Boccioni's working process and the connections between the works he executed in diverse media.
From 1910 to 1912, Boccioni developed the Futurist theory of painting that culminated in the dynamic, faceted forms of his masterpiece, Materia. In this painting, Boccioni portrayed his mother set against a balcony in their apartment, integrating events seen outside the window with activity occurring in the interior space.
Working in Milan, Boccioni drew inspiration from the city's rapid modernization and represented the Futurist vision of the new metropolis. Of equal importance was the Parisian avant-garde, which impacted Boccioni to work both with and against the art and ideas of his European counterparts. His development was influenced by his encounter with Pablo Picasso's 1910 portrait Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and possible viewing of Marcel Duchamp's 1912 Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)-both featured in the exhibition.
The exhibition is organized around a series of core themes such as Boccioni's evolution from Divisionism to Futurism, the exchanges between Futurism and Cubism, and the relationship between Boccioni's painting and sculpture. It also traces Boccioni's development of key Futurist themes in his art and demonstrates how he developed his ideas pertaining to the dynamism of matter and the fusion of interior and exterior spaces. He explored color, sculptural qualities of form, multidimensionality of space, and the problems pertaining to movement, as in his 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space-also in the exhibition. Boccioni's notions are integral to the synthetic conceptualization-of motion, simultaneity, and spatial relationships-that defines the Futurist style.
http://www.guggenheim.org/press_releases/release_81.html
