a lecture by Giuseppe Virelli
Thursday 22 January 20156 pmItalian Institute of CultureFree AdmissionRSVP dubdecandfine@gmail.comAmong other artistic movements, Futurism was the one that most effectively worked as a catalyst for a series of tensions and contradictions in the relationship between culture, art and tradition in a country that was trying to find its own identity within the European scene.
Many were the innovative concepts introduced: on one hand, Futurism did not simply position itself as an artistic movement, but as a “global ideology”, insisting on making laws and experiencing all possible fields of the human activity. On the other hand, Futurism was the first European artistic movement to place social and technological modernization at the center of the aesthetic experience.Under these circumstances the leading actors of Futurism not only created absolutely revolutionary paintings, sculptures and architectural oeuvres, but also designed unique objects that contributed to the basis of what in the future will become the world wide known and acclaimed Made in Italy.
Giuseppe Virelli (Ph.D) is a researcher at the Department of Arts at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. He is specialised in Italian and foreign arts movements between the first half of the 19th and the first half of 20th century and in graphics, decorative and applied arts and design.He has acted as curator of exhibitions and has published several essays for magazines, books and catalogues on Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism and the “Return to order”.