MASI Lugano is dedicating the exhibition *Umberto Boccioni: Toward Futurist Liberation* to Umberto Boccioni ( Reggio Calabria, 1882 – Verona, 1916), scheduled to run from August 7, 2026, to January 24, 2027. Curated by Cristina Sonderegger, the exhibition continues the series of in-depth explorations of Ticino’s art history and the museum’s collections, focusing on the period preceding the artist’s adoption of Futurism, a movement of which he was one of the principal founders and theorists.
The exhibition traces Boccioni’s evolution through the tensions and contradictions of his artistic exploration, from his early years in 1903–1904 through the complex three-year period of 1907–1909, up to the formal solutions he achieved in 1911. The central theme of the exhibition is a phrase the artist jotted down in his diary in March 1907: “I search, I search, I search, and I do not find. Will I find it?”, a testament to the restlessness that characterized those years.
The exhibition presents a collection of fifteen works. A core group of pre-Futurist paintings—donated to the City of Lugano by the heirs of Gabriele Chiattone, a supporter and patron of Boccioni during his years in Milan—is complemented by a selection of key works from the early Futurist period drawn from public and private collections. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
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