The art movement’s 2009 centennial brought a rash ... their influence remains potent in the 21st century. In 1909, when Futurism’s father, the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, penned his ...

He also wasn’t a conservative in any traditional sense, for there was little that he, and others in the Futurist art movement that he founded, wished to conserve. In his 1909 treatise ...

Inspired by Cubism and Futurism, it sought to depict invisible ... Their emphasis on instinct and emotion foreshadowed later movements such as Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism.

The curator of this exhibition, conceived from a resolutely national perspective, is art historian Gabriele Simongini. Simongini believes that futurism, "this major movement in the history of ...