The Crociani Civic Museum and Pinacoteca hosts the exhibition 'Futurists. Italian avant-garde. Giacomo Balla and the futurist idea, a "return" to Montepulciano' with 40 exhibited works by the main authors of the futurist movement including Umberto Boccioni, Fortunato De Pero, Roberto Baldesarri, Tullio Crali, Gerardo Dottori, Giulio D'Anna, Marisa Mori and Giacomo Balla.

The 32 paintings on display reflect the distinctive characteristics of the artistic movement. They are works articulated by dynamic lines, bold geometric shapes and bright colors: the result, therefore, is a sense of movement and great energy. Futurism, therefore, brought Italy back into line with the European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. A critical melee with academic traditions, confronted with the new industrial era.

In May 1912, as a guest of Countess Nerazzini, his Roman pupil, Giacomo Balla painted Dynamism of a dog on a leash in Montepulciano, one of his best-known works, with which he began to study dynamic movement in depth. After 111 years, the art of Giacomo Balla returns to the city of Montepulciano.

“A dynamic and dreamy kaleidoscope of colours. This is how Futurism can be well defined, a real break with the Italian cultural scene at the dawn of the twentieth century. Leaning towards the future and modernity, it has solid roots in the literary creed forged by the poet and writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who, in 1909 in Paris, on the pages of "Le Figaro", published the first Manifesto of Futurism. The renewal of Italian culture and art are well represented in this exhibition by over 30 works ranging from the end of the first decade of the twentieth century to the end of the thirties, from the first Futurist artists to the propulsive representations of the 'conquest of the skies' by Aerofuturist painters ”, is the comment of Roberto Longi, director of the Museum .