New art – speed, danger, defiance Italian Futurism 1909-1944 2.3.-10.6.2012

EMMA’s spring exhibition presents the full spectrum of Futurism showing some 150 works by 52 artists. The exhibits range from paintings, sketches and sculptures to objets and furniture. The Futurist movement originated in a manifesto published by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) in 1909 and faded out with his death in 1944. Whereas Futurism was primarily an Italian phenomenon, its influence was also prominent in Russia, Germany and Great Britain. Although echoed in Finland, it manifested itself not as a movement but through individual experimentation.