Vita Futurista. Italian Futurism 1909-44 - ACE170.8

Rovereto, Trentino. Photograph of Fortunato Depero who wrote with Balla, the manifesto Recostruzione Futurista del Universo / Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe (1915). Paintings and other exhibits include Rotazione di Ballerina e Pappagalli / Rotation of a Dancer Girl with Parrots (1914-1915). Maurizio Scudiero, Curator of the Museum Fortunato Depero, reads from the Manifesto. Metal flowers by Osvaldo Bot (Osvaldo Barbieri). Exhibits in the Depero Museum. Depero’s Puppet Theatre, Balli Plastici / Plastic Dances, with music by Virgilio Mortari. F.T. Marinetti, a 1929 collage by Enrico Prampolini. Examples of Prampolini’s theatrical designs in a "para-Surrealist" style. Dream sequence from Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s film La Borsa o la Vita / Your Money or Your Life (1933), attributed to Prampolini. Marinetti and his wife, Benedetta, with King Victor Emanuel III at the Futurist Exhibition, Rome, 1935. Exhibits include Zatkova’s Acqua Scorrente sotto Ghiaccio e Neve (1920), Benedetta Cappa Marinetti’s Treno nella Notte in Velocità / Speeding Train by Night (1924); some small sculptures. Footage of Mussolini in a "campaign for grain" propaganda film, and a "cucina futurista" event, including Paris-Sudan, a tactile collage by Marinetti. Hail to the Wind of Change read over (English). "Chicken FIAT" and other dishes such as lobster in green zabaglioni; cocktails called "The Inventress" and "I Burn in Your Mouth". Trio Exvoco performing The Woman Who Loves the Past (in French).