The invention of the modern
On the first floor of the Mart, in the new exhibition The Collections, the focus is on Futurism and its protagonists
From 5 December 2015
Curated by Daniela Ferrari and Denis Isaia
With the presentation of The Collections, the Mart explores over a century of history of Italian and international art. The greatest masterpieces of the museum collections are shown in a display that is strongly coherent with the architecture of Mario Botta. The Mart confirms itself as a great educational machine, whose strengths are the dialogue with the general public and the quality of its cultural offerings. The Mart’s collection, built up over the years thanks to a far-sighted policy of acquisitions, loans and donations, today comprises approximately 20,000 works. The new layout offers an art-historical itinerary set out chronologically with thematic diversions stressing the great continuity between trends, schools and the currents that have characterised the history of art since the end of the 19th century.
The Mart invites visitors to learn about the perimeters of art and go beyond them through the 20th century and its movements, and on to the experimentation of the present scene and the new media. The display project, which will be permanent, with regular changes, additions and rotations, is divided into two sections: The invention of the modern and The incursion of the contemporary.
On the first floor, the exhibition recounts The invention of the modern: starting with some nineteenth-century precursors (Medardo Rosso), we enter the twentieth century, the stage for the breakthroughs of the avantgarde movements with tradition on the one hand, and the revival of this same tradition on the other. The rooms dedicated to the Futurists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Luigi Russolo, Fortunato Depero and Enrico Prampolini also contain some rare documents from the Mart’s archival holdings, which is also the venue for the Centro Internazionale Studi sul Futurismo. These are followed by Giorgio de Chirico, Massimo Campigli, Alberto Savinio, Mario Sironi, Arturo Martini and Marino Marini. There are monographic diversions dedicated to such great masters as Felice Casorati, Giorgio Morandi, Osvaldo Licini and Fausto Melotti who close the itinerary.
Source: www.mart.tn.it
17/12/2015
