10. Paroliberismo, Photography, Cinema

“Words in freedom” are perhaps one of the best known elements of the Futurist movement. As Marinetti thundered: “We must destroy syntax”.
This was accompanied by a typographic revolution, rejecting “typographic harmony” and using different colours and fonts to create “typographically pictorial” pages. Books, meanwhile, became “objects” with bolted bindings and pages printed on enamelled tin.

The most typical expression of Futurism in the field of photography was photodynamism. Conceived in 1911 by the Bragaglia brothers, photodynamism represented movement as a synthesis of perception and emotion.
Various examples of “photoperformances” by Balla and Depero complete the presentation of Futurist photography.

Concluding the exhibition is a screening room showing a montage of excerpts of Futurist films, which on one hand translate Futurist experiments with movement and light into images, and on the other offer a vibrant account of life in cities and workplaces at the beginning of the century.

FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI, Parole in libertà – Irredentismo, 1914
Inchiostro, pastello, collage su carta; 21,8x27,8 cm
Lugano, collezione privata

UMBERTO BOCCIONI, Io Noi, 1905-1907
Stampa originale, 9 x 13,5 cm
Milano, collezione privata

MAGGIORINO GRAMAGLIA, Donna con serpente, 1931
Gelatina bromuro d'argento su carta; 30x39 cm
Torino, Collezioni Museo Nazionale del Cinema