ROME - Museums and large exhibition spaces are preparing for reopening by studying all the measures to combine security guarantees with the possibility of movement of visitors. But if space does not allow it, the solution is mandatory: one person will enter at a time. This is the case of Futurism & co, a tiny gallery in the center of Rome which in just 20 square meters has organized nine exhibitions in two and a half years of life dedicated to illustrious exponents of the movement founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. On May 18, the small office a stone's throw from the Spanish Steps reopens, therefore, with the exhibition 'The four elements. Futurist Visions', which had been inaugurated just a few days before the lockdown. The return to a semblance of normality will be the test for the more demanding monograph on Giacomo Balla scheduled for September. "We had no alternative - says Francesca Carpi, gallery manager -. Only by welcoming one visitor at a time can we resume the relationship with the public.
Everyone will therefore have the possibility of an 'exclusive' visit in all calm ''. Of course, mandatory mask and hand sanitizer at the entrance. There are plans to make appointments with collectors and customers. Even the traditional inaugurations will be a memory, we will proceed with invitations and reservations.
The exhibition of the restart - alongside the works of Depero, Balla, Boccioni and other masters permanently exhibited - brings together until the end of July four great works of authors of the second Futurism linking them to the primordial elements: the Fire is represented by 'City fire 1930 by Gerardo Dottori; the water from 'Rhythms of rocks on the sea' of 1929 by Benedetta Cappa, Marinetti's wife; the air from 'hilly landscape' of 1935 by Alessandro Bruschetti; the Earth from Sibò's (From the marshes to the cities' of 1936-37 (Pierluigi Bossi). '' The Futurists did not deny or deny the elements and natural forces - observes the curator Antonio Saccoccio - but they rejected the way in which the energy contained in those elements had been caged and sterilized by the civilization and culture that they considered past-runners ''. The appointment with Balla, entitled 'From light to light' by Elena Gigli (head of the artist's archive), will offer from September to the end of the year about seventy works by the avant-garde master. The exhibition was also conceived as a special moment to celebrate the twenty years of Futur-ism, the association founded in 2000 by Massimo Carpi, Francesca's father, which brings together more than one hundred art collectors willing to offer their paintings for exhibitions and events. The association, of which the gallery opened in 2017 represents the extension, takes care of the homonymous website which is a precious database for museums, public and private institutions, enthusiasts.