But what happens when utopias become reality? In the summer of 1914, Italian architect Antonio Sant’Elia published the Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, in which he emphatically condemned ‘the ...
With their funnel-like hooters and cupboard-like shapes, they looked bizarre, sounded wild and left audiences baffled. Now, ...
An colossal audiovisual adaption of Marinettis Futurist Manifesto by one of the uncontested master isolationists of the ethereal static sounds a sonic symphony of the unconscious and a defiant ...
Futurism was born in 1909 when poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who was acquainted with Balla, published a manifesto hailing originality, technology, courage and modernity with a nationalist bent.
Both literature and art had already experienced genuine revolution, with the spectres of ‘isms’ haunting the continent: cubism, expressionism, suprematism, dadaism, futurism (and more). Meanwhile, in ...