704 Dorsoduro
Italy
18 February – 31 December 2009
One hundred years after the publication of the ‘Futurist Manifesto’ in Le Figaro on 20 February 1909, that is signed by the jeune poète italien’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates this revolutionary avant-garde movement with this exhibition titled ‘Masterpieces Of Futurism.’
On top of the celebrations, this exhibition also serves as homage to the foresight of Gianni Mattioli, one of the greatest collectors of 20th century art who accumulated a comprehensive presence of Futurism in his collection that includes the works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Ottone Rosai, Mario Sironi and Ardengo Soffici.
Key paintings forming the movement such as ‘Materia and Dynamism of a Cyclist’ by Boccioni; ‘Mercury Passing Before the Sun’ by Balla; ‘The Galleria of Milan’ by Carrà; ‘Blue Dancer’ by Severini; and from Peggy Guggenheim’s own ‘Sea = Dancer’ by Severini; ‘Abstract Speed + Sound’ by Balla; and ‘Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses’ by Boccioni, as well as loans from private collections by Balla, Boccioni, Carrà and Sironi, will all be featured.
This exhibition will also be the debut of a recent gift to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Sironi’s early masterpiece ‘The Cyclist’ (1916).
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