One hundred years after the publication in Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, of the Futurist Manifesto, signed by the “jeune poète Italien” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates this revolutionary avant-garde movement with the exhibition Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, curated by Philip Rylands, director of the museum.

The exhibition also serves as an homage to the foresight of Gianni Mattioli, one of the great collectors of 20th-century art, who accumulated a comprehensive presence of Futurism in his collection. This includes works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Ottone Rosai, Mario Sironi, and Ardengo Soffici. (Source: www.guggenheim.org)