200 pieces (paintings, sculptures, drawings, books and engravings) by some of the leading names from the period – Kazimir Malevic, Natalija Goncarova, Mikhail Larionov, David Burlijuk – make up the exhibition organised by Evgenia Petrova (vice director of the St Petersburg state museum) and Alberto Fiz.
Outlawing the art of the past (“Get rid of Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy”, declared the Manifesto published in Moscow in 1912), the “budetljany” (people of the future, as they often described themselves), focussed on the bond with the earth and nature, unlike their Italian counterparts who “painted” a new world dominated by technology. These differences were manifested both in the actual meeting (with the visit to Russia of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1914) as well as the undeniable influences of the Italians, above all Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni, on the Russians.
From 15 December 2001 to 7 April 2002
Museo Archeologico Regionale
piazza Roncas 1, Aosta
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