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Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim: Exhibition Overview
To learn more, visit http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism Guggenheim curator Vivien Greene introduces "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the ...

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Italian Futurism: Boisterous, right-wing and prescient
The Italian Futurists hoped to change the world, and were improbably successful in hind-sight. But they have never had a proper show in the America. The Gugg...

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How to say: "FUTURISM" in English
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Leonardo DiCaprio sits courtside during Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic in Los Angeles, June 7, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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By Steven Zeitchik

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Ridley Scott is going back to the futurism.

The "Blade Runner" director is joining forces with Leonardo DiCaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded dystopian works of literature, Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."

Both are producing the Universal project, which DiCaprio would tentatively star in and Scott direct. The studio has brought on "Apocalypto" scribe Farhad Safinia to write the script; he's expected to be working shortly.

Scott has mentioned casually in interviews that he's interested in the 1931 novel, whose film rights are owned by DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, prompting a flurry of rumors on sci-fi and other blogs over the past year. But the studio details as well as DiCaprio's personal involvement always have been murky.

Now, with a writer on board and production executives meeting frequently during the past six months, the project has more momentum, though several people familiar with it emphasize that it remains at the development stage.

Much of the timing going forward will depend on the script. Scott is not committed to direct anything beyond "Robin Hood," which is in post-production. DiCaprio is shooting the Christopher Nolan adventure tale "Inception," but does not have a movie lined up after that.

"Brave" has had several go-rounds on television, including a Leonard Nimoy-Peter Gallagher picture on NBC in 1998. But Huxley's idea-rich novel hasn't had a shot on the big screen.

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SDR I (2011-12) - Multimedia interpretation (Futurism 1914 vs Future 2012)

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Amplifying the utopian zeal of the 20th-century avant-garde, Italian futurism marched its way into modern art with a revolutionary project and the brazen machismo to back it. The launch of this incendiary crusade against the bourgeois past and the flight toward the technological future led to a radical and chaotic period of production, presented for the first time in full force at the Guggenheim Museums monumental exhibition, Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe.

Organized by Vivien Greene, the museums senior curator of 19th- and early 20th-century art, this landmark show takes an unprecedented sweep of the history of futurism. It brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive assemblage of almost 400 pieces, including paintings, films, furniture, and architectural sketches by nearly 80 artists. Almost half of these objects have left Italy for the first time for this exhibit.

The show breaks new ground with its exploration of the relatively overlooked post-World War I phase of futurism and its proliferation into further media and subject matter. Frank Lloyd Wrights curved ramp and rotunda are powerfully enlisted, glorifying the futurist motif of the spiral and situating the viewer at the nucleus of the work in futurist fashion. This is one example of the exhibits sensitive and comprehensive reading of such a difficult movement, which is fraught with internal paradoxes and uncomfortably bears the cross of its highly fascist and misogynistic beginning.

Framing the exhibition is an audio display of The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, penned by the movements founder and chief firebrand, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The booming notes of the manifesto, recited with gusto, are an effective usher into the future conceived by Marinetti. With his combative, crowd-rallying register, we are effectively confronted with futurisms ideological thrusts: the exaltation of speed, machines, and warfare, contempt for women, and an unmitigated scorn towards the cultural institutions that would frame the works in years to come.

Early manifestations of this ideological project show the futurists attempts to inscribe speed, simultaneity, and temporality upon a static art object. Anton Giulio Bragaglias photographs with blurred movement are shown alongside the cubist and pointilist paintings of Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Carlo Carr. The predominance of paintings in the show embodies the paradox of this movement that sought to annihilate the past but failed to challenge the medium of painting. In Ballas The Hand of the Violinist, the serial repetition of the violin is both a pastiche of cubism and a highly literal depiction of movement through chronophotography. The vast, divisionist whirlwind of Boccionis The City Rises and its evocation of the mythical grandeur of factories and workers is particularly gripping. Carrs The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli is another highlight, amplifying chaos in movement with a throng of fighting bodies under a red mist that rivals the light of the sun.

The early heroic phase of futurism also drew its strength from Marinettis pioneering of parole in libert (words in freedom), a brand of visual poetry culminating in the typographically eccentric collection Zang Tumb Tumb. Documentary filmmaker Jen Sachs animation of the printed poems, coupled to a new recording, uses animation to convey the spontaneous energy of the poems.

While most narratives end in this phase, the breadth of the show importantly affords us a view of the subsequent mellowing of Italian futurism in the next decade. Fortunato Depero and Balla coined the futurist opera darte totale (total work of art), and the futurist aesthetic proliferated past painting into new forms of theater, film, art-deco style furniture, and even toys. The refreshing playfulness of works in this phase is striking, departing from the severity of the opening notes of the manifesto. In particular, a collection of visual sketches for Deporos Balli Plastici, a futurist ballet of machine-like puppets, stood out to me for its distinct combination of vorticist angularity and uncharacteristic fairy tale whimsy.

The later phases of futurism in the 1920s and 1930s, however, saw a return to its direct glorification of the machine with the themes of locomotion and flight, which the exhibition formidably displays. Ivo Pannaggis Speeding Train at once captures the monolithic mass of the locomotive and its dynamic lightness as it tears through space. More impressive are Benedetta Cappa Marinettis and Tullio Cralis works of aeropittura (aeropainting), restless with the movement of flight and appropriately exhibited on the highest ramp. The final paradox of futurismits apparent misogynyis brought to the fore by emphasizing Benedettas distinct presence in this phase, a clear crowning achievement of the show. A room is devoted to her dynamic canvases of rippling waves and warped space, echoing the velocity of Cralis piece and vigorously destabilizing the manifesto.

Italian Futurism is certainly an uneven ride, but one that truly captures the contradictions and complexities of futurism.

Italian Futurism, 19091944: Reconstructing the Universe is on view at the Guggenheim from Feb. 21 to Sept. 1. Entry to the Guggenheim costs $18 for students.

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The International Impact of Futurism
THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF FUTURISM Absorptions, Assimilations, Adaptations A Panel Discussion with: Gnter Berghaus, Senior Research Fellow, University of ...

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ART ANARCHY - FUTURISM (NO SOUND)
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