The Museo del Novecento and Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine in Milan in conjunction with Liberty and the publisher Electa present the exhibition FuturLiberty, opening on 5 April 2023. The exhibition, with scholarly curatorship by Ester Coen and artistic direction by Federico Forquet for the fabrics, explores the vicissitudes of the Futurist movement with original connections between painting and the applied arts in the two venues of the Area Musei d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of the City of Milan. The works by leading figures of the Futurist movement, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Fortunato Depero engage in a dialogue with Vorticist paintings by coeval British artists such as Percy Wyndham Lewis and Christopher Nevinson, starting from the Vital English Art manifesto of 1914 signed by the “caffeine of Europe”, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. These artists represented, in turn, the source of inspiration that guided Federico Forquet and the Liberty design team in the creation of two new collections.
The exhibition is accompanied by a guide to the exhibition itinerary at the Museo del Novecento and Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine, published by Electa, curated by Ester Coen.
FUTURLIBERTY AVANGUARDIA E STILE
Curated by Ester Coen and with artistic direction by Federico Forquet
Promoted by Museo del Novecento and Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine in Milan in conjunction with Liberty and the publisher Electa
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Liberty art fabric, 1900 ca. LIBERTY ARCHIVE, LONDON 1/6 -
Tessuto d'arredo, FuturLiberty, 2023 2/6 -
Umberto Boccioni Corpo umano (Dinamismo) 1913, olio su tela, cm 80x65 Milano, Museo del Novecento 3/6 -
Umberto Boccioni Dinamismo corpo umano, 1913 Monotipo cm 87x57 Milano, Museo del Novecento 4/6 -
William Morris TULIP, COTTON William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest 5/6 -
William Morris WANDLE, COTTON, 1884 William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest 6/6