Entitled Depero (1892 - 1960), the Futurist and the impact of Futurism on Hungarian avant-garde art, the exhibition will feature more than a hundred works on loan from the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
Depero's artistic development was influenced by Symbolism and Expressionism, as well as by Austrian Jugendstil and the Wiener Werkstätte. During his time in Rome he established contact with important Futurist painters such as Boccioni, Balla, Prampolini and Marinetti. His Futurist principles were summarized in the manifesto Ricostruzione futurista dell'universo (Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe), co-authored with Giacomo Balla in 1915, proclaiming the re-creation of the universe and the extension of art to all areas of life. Through his Futurist formal experiments he envisaged mobile sculptured constructions utilising the combined impact of movement and sound effects.
In Rome, after meeting Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, Depero designed costumes and stage sets for Igor Stravinsky's Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) and for Balli Plastici (Plastic Dances), a picto-plastic drama co-authored with Gilbert Clavel.
In the autumn of 1919 he opened a workshop in the Italian city of Rovereto called Casa d'Arte Futurista. Ten years later, he established the Futurist House in New York. In 1959, a year before his death, Depero designed Italy's first museum dedicated to Futurism.
Source: múlt-kor
