SMS: A Collection of Original Multiples Selection from No 1-6 | February-December 1968
3 June 2024
Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960
3 June 2024As part of L'Archivio Animato, Fondazione Cirulli is pleased to present the new exhibition section entitled The birth of the modern city.
The city and its architecture become a feature of a modernity full of design anxiety but also anti-modern hesitations.
The exhibition offers a short but intense and multifaceted reading of the architectural and urban imagination in Italian culture in the first half of XX century, recovering the most significant proposals coming from architecture and figurative arts.
The modern city of railway stations and airports, foundries, factories, gasometers and suburbs designs and establishes the new urban face of the twentieth century. It is "The city that rises", which grows on itself, renewing itself, the society and the people who compose it.
Artists experience the metropolis as a voracious "organism", indifferent in its continuous and incessant development, or they see it as a joyful "pulsating machine" to be launched at full speed towards the future.
In the wake of the futurist revolution of the first decade of the 20th century, Italian rationalist architects try to build the "future-present" and respond to the new needs imposed by modernity. Cities thus become laboratories for experimenting with new urban planning and architectural languages where cement, iron and glass perform the double task of functionality and beauty.
