Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Italia Nova - Une aventure de l'Art Italien - 1900-1950
GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND
PALAIS, 3, avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008
PARIS 01 44 13 17 30
Italian art between 1900 and 1950. Italia Nova. This
exhibition makes an inventory of the new and strong currents which
stimulated the artistic inspirations of modern Italy, in particular
futurism, true ancestor of the Design. In an certain way, these
ideas still sign the good Italian taste nowadays, this blow of single
pencil of the creators. The artists of that time are not inevitably
most known of the international cultural scene: Campigli,
Boccioni, Depero, Balla, among the signatories of the 120 paintings
presented there, are gathered coming straight from the most famous
Italian museums. The concept starts in 1909 when Marinetti
publishes its proclamation of futurism. The speed which surrounds
its world the influence, speed of the cars, the trains. The speed
effect will lead to dynamic effects, almost aerodynamic, in its
subjects, its volumes as well as the treatment of the colors.
Mechanics, the new machines, electricity, are as many subjects of
fascination for an almost technological painting we could say
today. Other painters will go still further, through new
proclamations: Balled and Depero write in 1915 a futuristic claim
of abstraction perfectly showed in a painting of Balla : speed of
a motor cycle.
