At the heart of the Pompidou exhibition passes «Futurism in Paris - The explosive avant-garde», timed to coincide with the centennial of Futurism

coming century futurism said in Paris. In the Pompidou Center is currently in the exhibition «Futurism in Paris - The explosive avant-garde» (Le Futurisme a Paris - Une Avant-garde Explosive), which represented not only the Italian Futurists, and other major currents in the art of XX century.

futurism was born Feb. 20, 1909, when the Italian poet and writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published in French newspaper «Le Figaro» a «Manifesto of Futurism». He called for the overthrow of the old culture, to the rejection of traditional morality, classical literature and academic art and the creation of new art - a daring, aggressive and energetic. «Racing car ... beautiful Nike of Samothrace ...», - wrote Marinetti, later became the author of the novel« Mafarka-futurist », brought him to scandal, but widely known. Marinetti insisted that the destruction of libraries and museums. He argued that the need even to abandon the commonly syntax - from the use of qualitative adjectives, adverbs, punctuation, and unions - and to transform the language, make it quick, lively, concise. As conceived by Marinetti, such statements should have been to this cultural revolution, which would cover literature, music, cinema, architecture, photography and even fashion and cooking. Aesthetics of Futurism was permeated to the entire thrust of the new, fast, dynamic and energetic, and the desire to merge with the high pace of life in the modern world.

first responded to the call of Marinetti Bochchoni Umberto (Umberto Boccioni), Giacomo Balla (Giacomo Balla), Carlo Carra (Carlo Carra), Luigi Russolo (Luigi Russolo) and Gino Severini (Gino Severini). February 11, 1910 they issued their own «Manifesto futuristic paintings», which called for the abandonment of academic and simulation, and praised those aspects of the life of modern man, as the «Steel, pride, fever and speed».

Picturesque embodiment of these ideas can be seen in the Pompidou Center. It was reconstructed a large part of the exhibition Futurists, which opened in February 1912 in the Paris gallery Bernhayma junior. This exhibition in the future has been shown in galleries in London, Amsterdam and Brussels, which has extended the glory «the future of art» in Europe. There are many sites, so your favorite futurists, such as railway stations, tram ways, crowds on the streets and boulevards.

In the exposition of the Futurists are complemented by works from other advanced movements - Cubism, orfizma, Russian and British kubofuturizma vortitsizma who did not escape the influence of revolutionary futuristic ideas. Here you can see a picture of Marriage Georges (Georges Braque), Robert Delaunay (Robert Delaunay), Fernand Leger (Fernand Léger), Francis Picabia (Francis Picabia), Kazimir Malevich , as well as fine linen, as a «naked, down the stairs» Marcel Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp), and «Driada» Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso), came to the exhibition from the Russian Hermitage.

The exhibition can be visited in the Pompidou Center until 26 January 2009. From February 20 2009 (exactly 100 years after the publication of the manifesto Marinetti) on May 24, exhibit located in the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, and from June 12, 2009 to 13 September 2010 - the London gallery Tate Modern.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: centrepompidou.fr , bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru