Pagine futuriste. Carte e libri futuristi nelle raccolte della Biblioteca comunale di Forlì
December 18, 2010 – May 31, 2011
Biblioteca comunale di Forli
Catalog
Balla e dintorni. Tracce futuriste nella Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì
April 9 – September 30, 2011
Pinacoteca Civica di Forli
Curated by Orlando Piraccini and Luciana Prati
*Presentation of Con me a funghi: introduzione alla vita beata by Francesco Balilla Pratella – Friday, May 13, 2011 | 5:15pm
Biblioteca di Forli
Le futuriste: L’altra metà dell’avanguardia
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | 5:30pm
Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Lucca
Secondo appuntamento per il ciclo di conferenze “ARTISTE & SOCIETÀ NEL XX E XXI SECOLO” promosso dalla Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, mercoledì 11 maggio alle 17.30 nell’auditorium di San Micheletto a Lucca.
L’incontro, dal titolo “Le futuriste: L’altra metà dell’avanguardia”, sarà tenuto dalla dottoressa Chiara Toti che ripercorrerà la storia di alcune delle più note futuriste, rileggendo la loro poliedrica attività, in un intreccio avvincente tra arte e vita. Saranno prese in esame, tra le altre, le formule aeropittoriche di Benedetta Cappa Marinetti e di Marisa Mori, le tavole parolibere di Irma Valeria e Rosa Rosà, le sculture di Regina e le coreografie di Giannina Censi.
Sebbene il movimento futurista mostrasse, fin dal Manifesto del 1909, un’evidente componente misogina, esso attirò nelle sue file numerose artiste che lo interpretarono come mezzo di emancipazione della condizione femminile. Attraverso l’esaltazione dell’energia e del dinamismo e il perseguimento di una gioiosa vitalità, il Futurismo apparve infatti come una via di affrancamento all’abnegazione e al sacrificio familiare a cui erano destinate le donne di primo Novecento. Per informazioni: tel. 0583/467205
La Stella d’Italia
By Giovanni Lista
Edizioni Mudima, Milan, 2011
632 pg., ill.
ISBN: 978-88-96817-06-3
The book rises from a deep research about the origins of the Stella d’Italia (Star of Italy), the most ancient symbol of the Italian land, that Marinetti evoked when he found the Futurist movement. Familiarly named “lo stellone” (the big star), the Stella d’Italia has been painted by Balla, Depero, Rosai, Sironi, Conti, Monachesi, Soffici and many other futurists. But it appears also in XIX century paintings, during Risorgimento’s conflicts for the Italian Unification, attesting a myth that goes back to an ancient political and geographical tradition when Italy identifies itself as the “land of sunset”.
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Il libro nasce da una ricerca approfondita sulle origini della Stella d’Italia, il simbolo più antico della terra italiana, che Marinetti ha evocato fondando il movimento futurista. Chiamata familiarmente “lo stellone”, la Stella d’Italia è stata dipinta da Balla, Depero,Rosai, Sironi, Conti, Monachesi, Soffici e molti altri futuristi.Ma appare anche nella pittura dell’Ottocento, durante le lotte del Risorgimento per l’Unità italiana, testimoniando di un mito che risale ad un’antica tradizione politica e geografica in cui l’Italia s’identifica come “terra del tramonto”.
+ See also Ada Masoero’s interview with Giovanni Lista in Il Giornale dell’Arte
Gino Severini (1883 – 1966): futuriste et néoclassique
April 27 _ July 25, 2011
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
September 17, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Curated by Gabriella Belli and Marie-Paule Vial
Catalog
via Artdaily, la Repubblica
Video with Severini’s great granddaughter
Umberto Boccioni’s Ritratto della Signora Cragnolini Fanna (1916)
from the collection of Margherita Sarfatti
May 4-14, 2011
Galleria Russo, Milan
Il 4 maggio 2011 alle ore 19,00 l’opera Ritratto della Signora Cragnolini Fanna di Umberto Boccioni verrà presentata durante un’esclusiva serata ad inviti presso la Galleria Russo::Asso di Quadri di Milano (via dell’Orso 12). L’opera, una delle ultime realizzate dall’artista a pochi mesi di distanza dalla sua tragica scomparsa, proviene dalla collezione di Margherita Sarfatti, importante figura di riferimento della scena artistica italiana. Datata 1916 l’opera è citata, in un elenco autografo dello stesso Boccioni, come di proprietà di Antonio Fanna, di Milano. Se nella gamma coloristica il dipinto risente ancora dell’impronta futurista, nell’impianto compositivo come nella scomposizione delle masse, Boccioni conferma il tentativo di assimilare la tradizione del post impressionismo francese e di Cézanne in particolare, secondo un processo creativo avviato dall’artista già da qualche tempo. Un’occasione unica per vedere una delle opere più importanti di Umberto Boccioni.
Just a reminder from my friend Tessa H., that the current rotation State of Flux at the Tate Modern includes Futurist art and is worth a visit.
Futurismo e Futuristi a Firenze
April 15 – May 15, 2011
*opening April 15th at 6pm
Studio laboratorio N.A.J.S (No Art Just Sign)
C’era anche l’assessore all’università e politiche giovanili Cristina Giachi stamani alla presentazione alla stampa della mostra “Futurismo e futurismi a Firenze”, che aprirà domani nello studio laboratorio N.A.J.S (No Art Just Sign) in via Romana 30/r, un nuovo ed inedito spazio dell’Oltrarno fiorentino. Il Futurismo dunque torna a Firenze dopo molti anni, con una esposizione che presenta opere firmate dai più grandi autori del movimento e dai loro seguaci, in una sintesi antologica che documenta la loro attività in tutta Italia, da Roma a Milano alla Sicilia, con una particolare attenzione per Firenze.
“Non poteva mancare il sostegno dell’Amministrazione Comunale a un’iniziativa come questa – ha dichiarato l’assessore Giachi -. Un’associazione di ‘folli’, anzi, due, la Micro e la Najs, aprono un nuovo spazio culturale privato e lo festeggiano offrendo generosamente alla città una mostra che potrebbe benissimo trovarsi in un museo. Una follia culturale, che è pura vita per la nostra città e realizza quella cultura diffusa che può restituire energia a Firenze. Il futurismo, al di là di tutte le valutazioni, può ben raccontare oggi questa energia. Firenze ha uno straordinario bisogno di scoprire disseminati nel cuore della sua bellezza questi salutari semi di follia”.
La mostra, patrocinata da Comune di Firenze, Provincia di Firenze e Confindustria Firenze, è organizzata dall’associazione culturale M.I.C.RO e curata da Maurizio Scudiero e Anna Maria Ruta; il Comitato Scientifico è formato da Maurizio Scudiero, Anna Maria Ruta, Francesca Barbi Marinetti, Elena Gigli, e Giancarlo Carpi; è realizzata in collaborazione con Futur-Ism Roma.
Il catalogo è edito dalla casa editrice D’Anna ed è introdotto dagli assessori Giuliano da Empoli e Cristina Giachi.
La mostra resterà aperta dal 15 aprile al 15 maggio. Info: http://www.futur-ism.it
April 7, 1883 (Cortona) – February 26, 1966 (Paris)
BOOK PRESENTATION:
Matteo D’Ambrosio will present his work
Roman Jakobson e il Futurismo italiano (Liguori editore)
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
6pm
Associazione Culturale “Maksim Gor’kij” (già Italia-URSS)
Via Nardones 17, Napoli
Introduction by Luigi Marino (Associazione Culturale “Maksim Gor’kij”), with Prof. ssa Michaela Böhmig (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”); Prof. Alexandre Urussov (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”)
In collaboraion with:
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Comitato di Napoli della Società Dante Alighieri
Liguori editore
Helen Caldicott and George Monbiot debated about nuclear power today on Democracy Now and it was very interesting. There is no doubt that the nuclear plant meltdown in Japan is very, very serious, and a threat to human health. But it has led to many people deciding that nuclear power — none of it — is safe, without considering all the facts and ramifications of that. Helen Caldicott is one of those people who thinks nuclear’s benefits are far outweighed by its dangers. In the interview Caldicott, a pediatrician, made her usual claims and several times lapsed into her patented filibuster style of speaking. She is 100% against nuclear power everywhere, for any reason at all. Monbiot sounded like the reasonable person that he is. He’s not so much pro-nuclear as he is interested in ways to stop climate change, and he feels nuclear power will be a necessary part of solving the greater problem. It’s not like he’s a big proponent of nuclear but he seems to recognize that nuclear power has a unique ability to provide huge amounts of carbon-free power for decades, once new safe plants are built. No one wants the old nuclear plants [...]
Transition Town Totnes (in the UK) aka TTT, is a dynamic, community-led charity that is strengthening the local economy, reducing the cost of living and preparing for a future with less oil and a changing climate. TTT has sparked a global movement. . . . as one of the most-watched community projects about. Transition Town Totnes is something anyone from Totnes & District can be really proud of. See more on Transition Town Totnes here. Transition towns and cultures have also emerged in the US. See more on that here. Naomi Klein is an author and activist, and this is her talk in Totnes in late March, hosted at Transition Culture. From Youtube: “Looking at the various crises going on around the world, what are the challenges ahead and the opportunities for us as a community? Can we meet these challenges skillfully? Klein is the author of ‘No Logo’ and ‘The Shock Doctrine’ and this talk occured on a rare visit to Totnes, UK.” This is a great talk by Klein and offers a lot to think about. Normally I’d put something like this in a podcast, but as people who subscribe to Climate Files know, I’m having problems doing [...]
Congress is considering a number of very bad proposals on the environment and the EPA that threaten the lives of all Americans. Some of these proposals have come up recently on the floor of Congress and the Senate, but action on them is being delayed until next week. Part of the story from eenews: (subscription only) “Senate leaders have delayed until next week votes on up to four amendments to limit U.S. EPA’s carbon regulatory powers. Leadership has been attempting to work out a deal on amendments to a small business assistance bill. It is still unclear whether the upper chamber will vote on only one amendment by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that would permanently strip EPA of its power to regulate carbon dioxide, or whether there will be votes on less stringent Democratic alternatives, as well. “It’s definitely not outside the realm of possibilities that McConnell would be the only amendment,” said Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson. He said conversations were ongoing between leadership and the three sponsors of the Democratic alternatives: Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)” Bottom line: The Republican party works for corporations and does not care about the health [...]
From eenews: Environmentalists filed a lawsuit today against Montana, claiming its Department of Transportation failed to conduct the necessary environmental review before approving an oil company’s request to transport heavy loads to Canada’s tar sands region. The approved project allows Imperial Oil Ltd. to move 207 oversize-load trucks through the state to the Kearl oil sands in Alberta. The company is also authorized to carry out certain road improvements. Known as the Kearl Module Transportation Project, the proposal would allow the oil company to transport heavy equipment on the final part of its journey from South Korea, where it is manufactured. The parts will be shipped to Vancouver, British Columbia, then up the Columbia River and Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, before being transferred to tractor-trailers. Various environmental groups, including the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club, have joined Missoula County in challenging the decision to allow the project to go ahead. The groups have sued under the Montana Environmental Policy Act, the state-law equivalent of the federal National Environmental Policy Act. The lawsuit alleges that the state issued approval “without adequately identifying and analyzing all relevant impacts of the project and with analyzing a broad range of alternatives” [...]
President Obama is giving new energy speeches around the country recently. Unfortunately, Obama still considers something called “clean coal” to be a reality, and he’s still actively talking about it. Actually “clean coal” is a PR phrase dreamed up by the coal industry, and it’s a product that doesn’t exist, so it is not something we should hear Obama talking about. (The U.S. can’t afford to help the poor with their heating costs, making up all kinds of excuses why that is, but it can and will spend billions pursuing the greenwashed myth that coal might some day be “clean”.) Good thing Obama talks about other things that will really help the environment and somewhat delay climate change. One of Obama’s more positive messages involves prodding businesses to buy and use more hybrids and electric cars. President Obama called on major U.S. companies Friday to purchase electric and hybrid vehicles, “part of a broad effort by the administration to reduce the country’s dependence on oil.” Note they no longer say “Oil and gas.” Gas used to be a fossil fuel too, but thanks to T. Boone Pickens and Sarah Palin, it’s now . . . something else. Something vaguely more [...]
Corporate welfare is just infuriating, especially when so many of these companies are involved in lobbying against climate change while they’re polluting this country and others. This list was compiled by Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont. While regular workers are facing inflation, loss of their jobs, foreclosure, and frozen wages, our international corporations are evading taxes. No wonder there’s supposedly no money for the EPA or education or health care — it’s all going to Exxon and other corporate thieves. Some of them don’t just avoid paying taxes, they actually get huge refunds! From Sanders’ website. 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders 1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings. 2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion. 3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from [...]
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS UPDATE ON JAPAN’S NUCLEAR POWER CRISIS Below is a partial excerpt from the March 25th conference with the Union of Concerned Scientists. The UCS claims to not be either for or against nuclear power. “MR. [David] LOCHBAUM: Thank you, Elliott, and good morning. Yesterday, there were reports that three workers received radiation exposures from water that they were walking through in order to repower some equipment in the Unit 3 turbine building at Fukushima. It’s not clear what the source of this radioactivity might have been. The turbine building is normally isolated from both the Unit 3 reactor core and the Unit 3 spent fuel pool. There were reports of damage to fuel in the Unit 3 reactor core, and also to damage to fuel in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool. But it’s not clear at the moment from the data we’ve seen how the water in the basement of the Unit 3 turbine building became contaminated. We haven’t seen any clear signs whether it came from the reactor core or from the damaged fuel in the spent fuel pool. They were adding water from above and from fire trucks to the spent fuel pool [...]
The following opinion piece was published in the Star Tribune on March 23rd, in response to a right-wing denier column scoffing at climate change, from the previous week. Climate change: Respect science Ignore pundits. . . . There are [science] websites that will help you assess the evidence if you are confused about climate change. (By Josh Leonard) Do you ever notice how climate-change deniers don’t use science? They seem to have an argument until you realize that it’s not scientific. A March 20 column by Jason Lewis (“Getting warm. Or cool. Let’s make policy!”) was an example. Whenever I encounter an argument denying global warming, I apply the following three-part filter: 1.Does it cite scientific research? 2.Does it look at long-range data? 3.Does it explain major global trends regarding: a.Global glacial retreat? b.The polar sea ice cap disappearing? c.The 10 hottest years on record occurring within the past 14 years? Deniers might pretend to address one or two of the above questions but can never fully address all three. They quote pundits like Rush Limbaugh or conservative think tanks like the Heartland Institute (which also advocates that secondhand smoke doesn’t affect your health). They look at short-term data. They [...]
Radioactive Cloud To Reach Europe This Wednesday No need to panic if you live outside of Japan — the spreading nuclear material is so minute that it didn’t even set off alerts over North America. Tiny amounts of radioactive material is now headed over the Atlantic to Europe. However, if you live in Japan, you should probably evacuate immediately if you live within a 100 mile radius of the Fukushima nuclear plants. Plutonium has now been found in the soil around the reactors. “A very slightly radioactive cloud coming from Japan will reach France Wednesday but it presents no health risks to the population here, the Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Security (IRSN) said in statements Tuesday. The cloud, which is heading here from Japan which March 11 had a national catastrophe, hit by an earthquake, Tsunami and radiation leaks, has a “very feeble” radioactive content and is of no danger to “adults, children and even unborn children,” officials from the Institute said on “France Info” radio. Experts at the IRSN said that health risks from the cloud were “unimaginable.” They remarked that the cloud had already crossed the United States and the radioactive levels were so low they didn’t [...]
For over a week now, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number of civilians killed. We know we have spent over $500 million dollars on this violence, and more is added to that total every day. There is no estimate, as usual of the environmental damage and pollution being caused by these bombings either, but it must be a huge amount. Will the Libyan people who supposedly requested our intervention reimburse us for the use of our military? They should. In his New York Times last week, columnist Bob Herbert talked about these things and more in his final column, in which he decided to lay it all out for us. In the United States, we have some strange priorities. Our government feels that saving other people in other countries is more important than helping Americans who in many cases desperately need help. Cost of war is no object. Yet in America, unemployment is still high, people are still suffering from food insecurity, and thousands have lost their homes in the last few years [...]
Another reason to end the bombing in Libya: It’s been admitted by officials that the U.S. government is now fighting to protect at least some al Qaeda fighters/sympathizers in Libya. This has been written about recently by MSNBC and today at the Washington Post, and I just listened to Rand Paul, (Republican Senator) discuss it on the floor of the Senate). I usually disagree with much of what Rand Paul talks about but on the topic of war and possibly arming another set of “freedom fighters” who may have ties to al Qaeda, I agree with him — the U.S. war in Libya should not have been started and should endas soon as possible. (It’s not a NATO war, it’s a U.S. and apparently French war). According to the Washington Post, “ As the U.S. transfers leadership to NATO, intelligence experts are trying hard to sort out just who the rebels are. (March 30)” A headline today says, “Libyan opposition includes a small number of al-Qaeda fighters, U.S. officials say“. So these are not rebels we want to help, much less arm. Shouldn’t we have figured this out before we started a war on their behalf? And oddly, the corporate [...]