The Utopian city
From the Futurist metropolis to the EUR 42 (1911-1941), curated by Nicoletta Boschiero.
As part of the celebrations linked to the 500 years from the publication of the work “Utopia” by Thomas More, the exhibition presents some drawings, projects and documents from the Mart collections, from the Ala Ponzone Civic Museum in Cremona, from the Association of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservationists in Bologna, from the Luigi Saccenti Archive and from the Quirino De Giorgio Archive in Vigonza. They are drawings of artists and architects that have depicted the city as the privileged place of modernity, of the future, of the speed and of the movement.
The static urban landscape becomes mobile and grows together with the new ideology of the machine. While the metropolis conceived by Antonio Sant'Elia is only a dream, Angiolo Mazzoni and Adalberto Libera, two cornerstones of the rationalist architectural movement, try to make it possible. As a matter of fact, both of them have dealt with utopian projects: the former with some buildings in the new cities in the Agro Pontino areas, the latter with the construction of the EUR 42 for the Universal Exposition.
Tullio Crali and Quirino De Giorgio develop Futurist topics and insights through different points of view, inspired by the Manifesto of the Futurist Aero-painting.
During the exhibition, some fragments of “Metropolis” are shown; this film by Fritz Lang, is the first one to join the UNESCO project Memory of the World for its cultural and technical value.
organization: Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto
