Art Tour
Saturday Gallery Tour - Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life
21 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Sat, 21 Mar
- 15:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
Free with an admission ticket purchased on the same day.
Address
- 39a Canonbury Square
- London
- N1 2AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Highbury & Islington
Saturday Gallery Tour - Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life
About
Join exhibition co-curator Barbara Martorelli for a Saturday afternoon gallery tour of Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life.
For Tullio Crali (1910-2000) Futurism was not just a school of painting, but an attitude to life itself. Reflecting the movement’s enthusiasm for the modern world, his imagery embraced technology and the machine as important sources of creative inspiration. However, with its particular focus on “the immense visual and sensory drama of flight”, Crali’s work is most closely associated with the genre of ‘aeropainting’, which dominated Futurist research during the 1930s.
Featuring rarely seen works from the 1920s to the 1980s, this exhilarating exhibition covers every phase of the artist’s remarkably coherent career, including iconic aeropaintings, experimental works of visual poetry and mixed-media reliefs, as well as examples of ‘cosmic’ imagery dating from the 1960s, inspired by advances in space exploration. Also featured are a large number of Crali’s famous Sassintesi: enigmatic compositions of stone and rock, ‘sculpted’ by natural forces.