Florence, a futurist night on the Gonnelli antiquarian bookshop

1913-2023: 110 years after the futuristic portray exhibition organized by Lacerba and Ferrante Gonnelli in November 1913, the Gonnelli Antiquarian Bookshop of Florence, Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 6pm, organizes a futurist night with a dynamic program of occasions, speeches, readings, declamations and dwell music within the identify of dynamism and “all the pieces is theatrical when it has worth”. It’s a actual present, the place the spectator will witness the re-enactment of salient occasions offered with music and theatrical efficiency.

1913 was an ideal 12 months for Florence and for that motion of younger artists who, moved by the impetus of provocation and the will for renewal, gave life to that extraordinary creative and cultural motion which, by its programmatic manifesto, influenced literature, poetry, portray , sculpture, structure, music: the Futurism.

In July of that 12 months Ferrante Gonnelli, buddy, supporter and writer of the futurists publishes a 24-page booklet with a title which in itself represents a provocation not solely in its contents, but in addition within the typographical format desired by Ardengo Soffici: it’s the well-known AGAINST SEXUAL MORALITY of the so-called “immoralist” Italo Tavolato. The feeling that this pamphlet triggered was monumental, a lot in order that the creator was tried after which acquitted because of the intervention and arguments of the quite a few attorneys of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

In November 1913, once more because of the initiative of Ferrante Gonnelli and pals of Lacerba, the primary exhibition of Futurist portray was organized in a room in By way of Cavour adjoining to the bookshop. Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Severini e Gentle who represented the avant-garde of Italian artwork of the primary many years of the century exhibited their works in that historic exhibition which Primo Conti he remembers with these phrases: “Let the individuals say it – he shouted at me [Alberto Viviani] – and run to see it!”. I ended up there reluctantly, on a wet afternoon within the winter of 1913, and it wasn’t simple for me to get in because of the giant crowd that overflowed from the doorway onto the pavement.

However the spectacular occasion that triggered probably the most outcry, scandal, amazement and marvel was the Nice Futurist Night which was held on 12 December on the Teatro Verdi. On the stage, improvised actors, Marinetti launched himself, Soffici, Papini, Carrà, Cangiullo, Boccioni, Tavolato, Scarpelli. The spotlight of the night was actually Papini’s speech, Towards Florence, who directed a vitriolic assault on his personal metropolis, traditionalist par excellence and now the “wormy tomb of artwork”. The response of the viewers, who arrived in giant numbers, was overwhelming and uncontrollable, a kind of liberating collective emotion, which noticed the motion transfer from the stage to the viewers.

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Thus ended that unbelievable 12 months, inevitably opening for the years to comply with an extended and contradictory season which, beneath the Futurist motion, would mark the lives of unbelievable artists who, with their legacy, entrusted posterity with the consideration of recalling their spirit and in what manner the witness of their actions.