The Magnani Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) is presenting a major monographic exhibition celebrating the work of the Italian artist Gino Severini (1883 – 1966), who is best known as one of the leading painters of the Italian Futurist movement.Born in Cortona 1883, Severini moved to Rome in around 1899 where he Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni who inspired him to become an artist. He worked in a Pointillist manner until he joined the Futurist movement in 1910 when he the “Manifesto tecnico della pittura futurista.”Titled “The Emotion and the Rule,” the Magnani Rocca exhibition explores the different periods of Severini’s career, from Divisionism (1905 to 1910), to Futurism (1911 to 1915), through Cubism (1916 to 1919), a return to the figure (1920 to 1943), and finally to Neofuturism and Abstraction (1848 to 1951)“Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them…,” he once said.“In the early days the Cubists' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it; the futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world.”Severini’s futurist masterpiece “Danseuse articulée” (1905) and his “Still Life with musical instrument” (early 1940s), both in the Magnani Rocca collection, were the inspiration for the exhibition, which brings together more than 100 works by the artist, 25 of which are being shown in Italy for the first time.Although his still lifes with musical instruments and scenes from the Commedia dell’Arte were his favorite subjects, Severini engaged with a variety of themes and subjects throughout the many phases of his career.Arranged thematically instead of chronologically, the exhibition a number of key, recurring themes, with sections devoted to his paintings of portraits and masks; still lifes and landscapes; depictions of dancers; and religious and secular murals.“The Emotion and the Rule” is at the Magnani Rocca Foundation until July 3
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