In the year of the one hundred and fortieth anniversary of the birth of Gerardo Dottori, a leading figure of the Futurist movement, the National Museums of Perugia - Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria propose, from October 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025, at the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, a tribute to the artist to illustrate his artistic journey, through selected works that are little known to the general public, curated by the Dottori Archives in the persons of Massimo Duranti, Andrea Baffoni, Francesca Duranti and with the collaboration of Beatrice Falcione.

In room thirty-nine, where the permanent path of the National Gallery of Umbria currently concludes with an opening to the historicized Twentieth Century, on the occasion of the XX Day of Contemporary promoted by AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, the GNU wants to start a series of insights dedicated to the movements and artists that have marked the "short century". The first protagonist of this new initiative is Gerardo Dottori, one of the personalities who dominated the artistic scene of Umbria in the first half of the century.

Through rarely exhibited works, mostly from Italian private collections, the Perugian exhibition retraces all the languages ​​addressed by the artist during his expressive journey: from divisionism-pointillism, of the first decade of the 1900s, to the dynamism of the mechanical means of the early Teens, from the visual-auditory sensations of the mid-Teens to the aeropittoric developments of the early Twenties, to the early Forties, a few years before the historical end of the Marinettian movement with the death in 1944 of its founder.

Among the exhibited works, Visione, from 1906, a work found in Milan in the early Sixties, the only one signed with the monogram of the artist's initials. Created during Dottori's stay in the Lombard capital, it reveals the influence of divisionist painting by artists such as Giovanni Segantini and Gaetano Previati, particularly evident in the technique of filamentous brushstrokes.

Linked to the artist's early Futurist beginnings is Motociclista, from 1914, which explores the theme of the dynamism of motor vehicles, inspired by the fascination for speed: the result is an effect in which the motorcyclist seems to be enveloped by the landscape. The work was exhibited at the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia and donated with dedication to Marinetti.