Il futuro del Futurismo aims to deal with the influences that Futurism had on developments in the visual art of the twentieth century.
Il futuro del Futurismo aims, through the 150 works displayed, to deal with the influences that Futurism – the most important historic avant-garde movement in Italy – had on developments in the visual art of the twentieth century up as far as the most recent contemporary research; it provides a themed exhibition itinerary that relates together the languages that found their theoretic and poetic basis in the manifestations of this movement, and the most innovative artistic studies of the twentieth century.From the works of the historic exponents of futurism – such as Boccioni, Balla, Carrà, Russolo, Severini, and Depero, true benchmarks in the history of art in the way they interpreted revolutionary concepts such as simultaneousness, the aesthetic value of technological innovation, and the fascination of a future that could not yet be tested – the exhibition moves on to artistic research for which the radicalism of the Futurist avant-garde opened the way: from Abstract art to Constructivism, from Kinetic art to the Neo-Avant-garde of the Sixties and Seventies, and up as far as some of the protagonists of contemporary art. It is an itinerary, then, that is constructed of comparisons, analogies and differences.