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Detail from Tricolour Wings painted by Tullio Crali in 1932.

“A new beauty is born today that I call ‘geometric and mechanical splendour’. This is a thousand times more interesting than human psychology with its limited combinations. To them we prefer the great solidarity of preoccupied motors, arrayed and eager.” – F. T. Marinetti, 1914
Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life runs until 11 April, don't miss it!

111 years ago today, F. T. Marinetti published his (in)famous ‘Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’.
Why not mark the occasion by coming to visit our exhibition of work by Tullio Crali, one of his most enthusiastic disciples, who drew this caricature of the movement’s leader!

Join us tomorrow for a fun Family Art Day!
Learn about asteroids and meteors and craft your own imaginary rock from outer space using playful approaches to mark making and sculpture.

Tullio Crali tended to employ a geometric style and a cool palette in his images of Paris. Such an approach seems like a conscious homage to the Cubist vocabulary. This is a view towards Montmartre, crowned by the distinctive white basilica of Sacré-Coeur.
A Futurist Life runs until 11 April 2020.

Don't miss our Family Art Day tomorrow!
Explore the technologies and sensations of flight by making a variety of propellers, pinwheels, paper aeroplanes and kites to fly.
Drop in session 11.00-14.00, free for children accompanied by a paying adult.

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Starting the weekend with these lovely #Futurcats painted by Crali in 1948
#caturday

Half-term is here! ✨
Join us next week for a series of fun workshops and activities for all the family.
Family Art Days: Wed-Thurs 11.00-14.00 - drop in workshops, free for children accompanied by a paying adult.
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WORKSHOP ALERT 🚀 🛰️ 30 March: Join artist and self confessed space nerd Giles Bunch to explore the themes and imagery found in Crali's manifesto Orbital Art.

By 1935 Crali had become a significant figure within the Futurist movement. He had also found his own distinctive style, grounded in a perfect marriage of abstract and figurative elements.
This confident image depicts an artist at the height of his powers.
A Futurist Life: http://bit.ly/AFuturistLife

Carlo Carrà was born #onthisday in 1881.
Together with Umberto Boccioni and Luigi Russolo he drafted the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters and the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (both 1910), issuing his own manifesto The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells in 1913.
Synthesis of a Café Concert, 1910-12

Crali’s admiration for Boccioni’s imagery is evident in this work. Its faceted planes and eerie tones evoke the melancholy atmosphere of the artist’s ‘States of Mind’ triptych (1911) – as do the sombre expressions of its protagonists.

Discover Tullio Crali and his futurist works, on display at the @estorickcollection until 11 April.

Tullio Crali was fascinated by parachutists, who feature in some of his most dramatic works. Such images tend to focus on the ‘decisive moment’, capturing figures who are about to leap from the fuselage or who have just plunged into the void.
Tullio Crali, Releasing the Safety Belt in Flight, 1943, private collection. http://bit.ly/AFuturistLife

Join us tonight for a informal talk of the exhibition Tullio Crali led by curator Christopher Adams!

“SASSINTESI rejects painterly backgrounds, as such interventions denaturalise the stones, reducing them to conventional plasticpictorial elements.” Tullio Crali
Inazami and Inazaghi (Japanese Legend), 1961, private collection.