Photo by Georges Meguerditchian. © Centre Pompidou, Paris

Futurism Manifesto appearing on the front page of "Le Figaro," February 20, 1909. Newspaper, 24 x 17 in.

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This coming February is the centennial of Futurism, marking the month that F. T. Marinetti published his manifesto on the front page of Le Figaro, singing the praises of “bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers,” “great breasted locomotives,” and the beauty of war, speed, and all that is new. Numerous exhibitions, conferences, symposia, celebrations, and performances will mark the anniversary throughout 2009, but the Centre Pompidou is kicking things off with an ambitious survey that aims to trace the impact of Futurism on French Cubism and other avant-garde movements of its day. Featuring more than 200 artworks and documents, the exhibition—which travels to Quirinal Stables in Rome and the Tate Modern in London next year—will present a reconstruction of the Futurists’ influential 1912 exhibition at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris, alongside paintings and drawings by the sole French Futurist, Félix Del Marle. Also on view is a comprehensive international survey of concurrent artistic revolts, such as French Cubism, Russian Futurism, the British Vorticists, the Orphists, the American Synchronists, and the Parisian Section d’Or (Golden Section), which included Raymond Duchamp-Villon, František Kupka, and Francis Picabia. Linking Futurism to our present day is a commissioned sound-and-light installation by DJ Jeff Mills, a founder of the maverick Detroit­-based techno collective Underground Resistance. All this just in time for us to reconsider the impact of speed, technology, violence, and, while we’re at it, fascism—then and now.

"Le Futurisme à Paris" is on display from October 15, 2008—January 26, 2009 at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

"Le Futurisme à Paris" originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' October 2008 Table of Contents.