Exhibition presented in Spain “divisionism and futurism” Italian – Terra Mexico

The exhibition “From Futurism divisiveness. Italian art to modernity “shows in the capital of the artistic movements of the nineteenth and twentieth century in Italy less known and gave way to modernism there.

At a press conference, the director of Culture of the Mapfre Foundation, Pablo Jiménez Burillo; and Commissioners, the curator of the Museum d’Orsay, Beatrice Avanzi, and professor at the University of Milan, Fernando Mazzocca, presented the exhibition.

With 78 pieces of various painters of the time, the exhibition will show until 5 June at the Mapfre Foundation, the relationship of these two artistic currents that opened the way to abstract and then at the forefront of the twentieth century.

Highlights include pieces by artists of the time such as Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Emilio Longoni, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni or GinoSeverini and others.

In the late nineteenth century comes divisiveness, closely linked to the symbolism, and Italy highlighted by the separation of colors and shades of paint, not to mix them, and in such detail it so that his works at the time were known as “dotted painting” or “measles.”

The protagonists sought to leave behind the conventional way of working the landscape and nature, reflect otherwise, and futurism is passed to a committed social painting, looking issues the cities.

Thus, the exhibition organized in collaboration with the Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto in Italy, highlights how moving from conventional natural environments and aesthetic forms modern art.

Even some creators sought with some of his works denouncing the social situation in the country, and gradually are moving as artistic movement toward modernity.

The divisiveness in Italy is a period lasting just over 20 years and extends its language as a unit throughout the country, while the futurism that follows continues even beyond wars in which enters the country.

The exhibition also includes documentation of the manifestos published on divisionism and futurism by the artists, the audience and explains what those principles were of Italian art.