"UMBERTO BOCCIONI. VITA DI UN SOVVERSIVO", RACHELE FERRARIO'S NEW BOOK HAS BEEN PRESENTED IN THE GALLERY

After the female biographies dedicated to Palma Bucarelli and Margherita Sarfatti, Rachele Ferrario, a well-known historian and art critic, recounted an iconic artist of our art history with unedited traits, presenting her latest book on December 12 in the gallery. ​

«To tell about Umberto Boccioni I have often used his own words or those of those who knew him, in order to restore the deepest meaning of the man and the artist.» Rachele Ferrario thus reconstructs in these precious pages the stormy, and in many respects little known, story of the great leading artist of futurism. From childhood between Morciano di Romagna and Padua, to the Roman apprenticeship with Balla, the friendship with Sironi and Severini, the bond with Marinetti, the love with Margherita Sarfatti, the travels in the Russia of the Tsars and in the Paris of Picasso, the arrest, the brawls in the incandescent Milan of the turn of the century.

Boccioni is an outsider. The son of an usher and a seamstress, he has no academic training, but an innate talent for drawing which he channels into the representation of a world in transformation, of which he proves to be a surprising interpreter, «capable of translating the "futuristic wildness" into images ”, the movement, the electric light, the running trains, the moods of those who leave and those who stay, the energy of the first years of the century».

Today his paintings are exhibited in the most important museums of the world and "his colours, his images, his visions" still vibrate with exceptional contemporaneity.