Matera and Treviso united in the sign of Futurism thanks to the collaboration between the National Museum of Matera, directed by Annamaria Mauro, and the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate, directed by Daniele Ferrara.

The National Museum of Matera will propose, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi venue from 20 October 2023 to 10 January 2024, the great exhibition "Italian Futurism. The contribution of the South to the developments of the movement", edited by Massimo Duranti. In the Matera exhibition there will be, among other various works, a fundamental nucleus of futurist posters granted by the Salce National Collection Museum of Treviso.

The Treviso Museum, headed by the Venetian Regional Directorate, will in turn propose a large exhibition specifically dedicated to the theme of the Futurist manifesto, with the title "Paper Futurism". The Treviso exhibition, curated by Elisabetta Pasqualin with the collaboration of Sabina Collodel, will take place in the San Gaetano del Salce venue in two successive moments with as many exhibitions. The first, with the declination "Forms of the avant-garde", will be at San Gaetano from 28 October 2023 to 25 February 2024. Followed, from 1 March to 30 June 2024, by the second part, marked by the subtitle "Imagining the universe with the art of advertising”.

In Treviso, at the Salce the attention will be concentrated on the graphic declination of futurist art «because, although the works on canvas and sculpture are well known and easy to recognize, advertising posters still remain a niche sector and develop a their specific language despite their wide diffusion", underlines the Director Daniele Ferrara, who recalls how "Fortunato Depero in the manifesto "Futurism and advertising art", from 1931, predicted: "the art of the future will be powerfully advertising ”. “Paper Futurism” confirms the prophecy. On display are posters by Sironi, Dudovich, Depero himself, Seneca, Nizzoli, Boccasile, Nicolai Diulgheroff, Xanti Schawinsky, Giulio Cisari, Lucio Venna, Umberto di Lazzaro, Luigi Martinati, among many. Authentic masterpieces of Futurism, documenting - in two stages - the evolution that transformed the "vortex" into "turbines" in Italy between the two wars".

These projects confirm that a new revival of Futurism is underway, after that of the years around the centenary of 2009. In recent months there have been and are many exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, on the Marinettian Movement: among the most recent, in Padua, “Futurism 1910-1915. The birth of the avant-garde”; in Holland “Marinetti en het futurisme” at the Rijksmuseum twenthe, Enschede; “Futurism & Europe. The aesthetics of a new world”, Kroller museum, Otterlo; "From above. Aeropittura futurista” at the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato di Parma and others are announced in Italy and abroad.

The new revival demonstrates, however, that this artistic avant-garde still not only generates attention but also that much of current art is indebted to Futurism and its assumptions.