Crali. Futurist Testimonies

Nowadays Tullio Crali is known as futurist and painter of airplanes; actually he was a total experimenter, a versatile artist who devoted his life to art, from painting to theatre, from architecture to fashion.

The exhibition "Crali. Futurist Testimonies", curated by Nicoletta Boschiero, carries out an investigation on a protagonist of Futurism offering an exquisite, new route which explores both aptitudes and passions of the most well-known cultural Italian movement of the early XX century.

For a long time Casa Depero has been involved in the study of the historic Futurism and its exponents. Through an important group of works of art shown at the Mart Museum, as a result of acquisitions and gifts, Casa Depero offers a survey on the first phase of Crali's work, which is especially tied to his sketches for theatre and fashion.

It is possible to watch two film library footages in which there is the recitation of some texts written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the father of Futurism: in the first one Tullio Crali recites "La battaglia di Adrianopoli" ("The Battle of Adrianopoli"), in the second one Carmelo Bene recites "Uccidiamo il chiaro di luna" ("Let's kill the moonlight").