Futurist Performance and F. T. Marinetti

Guggenheim Senior Curator Vivien Greene and Head of Exhibition Lighting Mary Ann Hoag discuss avant-garde performance in the Futurist movement and describe how an evocation of one of these works has been installed in the Guggenheim’s multidisciplinary exhibition of Italian Futurism.

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,,...Futurism, launched by us in 1909 in Milan, has given the world a hatred of Museums, Academies, and Sentimentalism; it has given us Art-action, the defense of youth against senility, the glorification of illogical and insane innovative genius, the artistic sensibility of machinism, speed, the Variety Theater, and the simultaneous interpenetrations of modern life, words-in-freedom, plastic dynamism,
noise-tuners, and the synthetic theater. Today, Futurism is redoubling its creative efforts...''

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Sounds wonderous

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