Depero Acrobatico Automatico
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DEPERO AUTOMATICO ACROBATICO
07.09.2022 | 26.02.2023
Palazzo della Ragione, Mantova

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Depero Acrobatico Automatico

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07.09.2022 | 26.02.2023 - DEPERO AUTOMATICO ACROBATICO - PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, MANTOVA 07.09.2022 | 26.02.2023
DEPERO AUTOMATICO ACROBATICO
PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, MANTOVA

Opening to the public on 7 September 2022, at the Palazzo della Ragione in Mantua, in conjunction with the Festivaletteratura, is the exhibition devoted to Fortunato Depero, intelligent creator of the Futurist aesthetics theorized in the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, which he authored with Giacomo Balla in 1915.


The exhibition is a journey through multiple creative fields, divided into the three geographical stages of Depero’s artistic career.

Capri inaugurated one of his most creative periods, which peaked between 1916 and 1918, with the theatrical adventure that he undertook with his Swiss associate Gilbert Clavel, retraced through some drawings that belonged to Clavel himself. Also on display is an important masterpiece, Meccanica di ballerina, from 1917, and some very fine drawings in Indian ink devoted to his project of the Institute for Suicides, a prelude to the birth of the automaton with the Balli plastici.

In Rovereto in 1919, after the war, Depero fulfilled his great dream of opening an art house specializing in the field of advertising graphics, furniture and the applied arts and, in particular, the creation of fabric inlays that would prove a great success in Paris, at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes,  ”open to all industrialists whose products are artistic in character and clearly modern in tendency”.

Finally, after the successes obtained in the principal national and international exhibitions, Depero and his wife Rosetta moved to New York in 1928. Here they opened Depero's Futurist House, a sort of American branch of the art house in Rovereto.

Depero's commitment to advertising was embodied in work with leading brands, and he designed numerous covers for American Printer, Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as creating the sets for New Babel.

  • Comune di Mantova
  • Electa

In collaboration with

  • Mart
Comune di Mantova
MANTOVA CITY OF ART AND CULTURE MANTOVA CITY OF ART AND CULTURE

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Mostra Depero Automatico Acrobatico.
Palazzo della Ragione, Piazza Erbe - 46100 Mantova.
Dal 07/09/2022 al 26/02/2023.

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