Because for Tullio Crali, the last of the futurists, the flight was really the love of your life.
His interest in the plane was born in Zara, as he writes, “For a small seaplane all wood, paint canvas. He greeded on the water, I dreamed off the coast”.
And it is perhaps for this special link with the machines to fly that the exhibition “Tullio Crali. The evolution of the flight”, which can be visited free of charge from 5 to 11 April in the historical rooms of Palazzo Aeronautica Militutica, can be considered an exciting “Return Home” of the artist with Bold perspective visions.
The first review devoted to the Air Force of the 1920s, edited by the historic of Art Barbara Martorelli, is a compelling journey, not to be missed, in an exceptional location that opens for the public for the occasion.
To improve it is an airy, fascinating setting, where the color of the extraordinary frescoes of the historic halls of Palazzo Aeronautics – which acts as a pendant with the colors of Crali, with the powerful images of the airporter, finds his dynamic lines – finds the Palace of the Blue Wapen, built between 1929 and 1931.
Tullio Crali, Ali Tricolori, 1932. Oil on the table, 55.5 x 72 cm, private collection
After traveling, the elegant honorary staircase, accompanied by Celeste metal plane Di Giacomo Balla, the visitor crosses the chronological path characterized by more than 80 works, one of the most iconic of the Master production, originating from the Crali family and public and private collections, such as the Veneto region and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture of Venezia Giulia.
The works wink to diaries, photos and archive materials that reduce the different phases of the artist’s production. From the first experiments of the Airpitisure, celebrated for air evolutions in the boundless air spaces, as the most famous Dare in town (1939) We continue to large format cloths that display the air visions after the war.
When the watercolors on paper in the late 1920s and the first attempts to use oil on canvas transfer the elevation of flights and speed transferred by bold chromatic shirts with lively colors, the first oils of the 1930s show an increasingly safer hand, the elegance of the winding line from Prampolinian taste and the voltage stress. The routes of the late phase dedicated to the Frecce Tricolori, whose triptych was granted on a long -term loan by the artist’s family at the Air Force, close the route.
“Tullio crali – remarks The Staff Chef of the Air Force, Air Team General Luca Goretti – was a careful and precise chronicler of his time, animated, just like all the great artists, by a profound sensitivity. The softening of, at least partly, the great audience of the pilot and brings the tension.
Tullio Crali, beaten Cabrata, 1959
The exhibition was born thanks to a first contact that the curator Barbara Martorelli had with the Air Force, with the conviction that it could be the perfect place to put forward the aspect of the evolution of the flight, strongly linked to the artist’s work. “From the first works of the 1920s – Martorelli explains until that of the nineties, it can be seen how Crali succeeded in accompanying the history of the Air Force with that of the airoption. The Vierie van Rome also started using the oil that he creates the main cloths that immediately make him famous. Dance battle of parachutists, From the Veneto region, which Palazzo Balbi has never left “.
After seeing his lively works, looking from the window of an airplane, it will be impossible not to reconsider this painter who, thanks to the mediation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, had the opportunity to travel for free on the flights of the Littoria Wing, also received from the Ministry of the Air Force to visit the Airport Forsures in Forehaven’s Forsures Forsures In the 1942 Bialnial.
“He also had the authorization of the Royal Royal to fly to represent sensations that can hardly be expressed in words – explains the head of the 5th” communication “department of the Urban Aerial Brigade Floreni -. This exhibition, the first injured in the airport, followed the air force.
Stopping the Tullio Crali exhibition. The evolution of the flight
Works as ‘Magic in flight“,” Motor attack “, directly influenced by the painter’s experience with pilots during a planned flight from Abu Symbel to Cairo, dialogue with excellent pencil drawings such as” A 5000 on Turin “or” The Last Moment “.
“Crali – explains the art historian Fabio Benzi – represents one of the best artists of the last futuristic phase. Balla leaves the abstract futurism at a certain point to find a new form of figurative futurism, innovative, observation, on Andy Warhol.
And here they are the planes that insinuate between the city and country to discover new landscapes, night or timelessly, in an increase in pre -areas or during the landing phase, on the Green Lake, between Rade and Pelagie Islands, to touch the Alps or to dive at an airport.
They are also suggestive works such as “Tricolor Festival in heaven”“Speed poem“, Emblem of a new code that improves the graphism of De Lijn with full backgrounds that alternate with parts of heaven. On the other hand, from the late 1980s, almost eighty years old, Crali finds new creative inspiration by attending the ACRE patrouille of the Tricolor arrows at the basis of the training of the course.
Stopping the Tullio Crali exhibition. The evolution of the flight
The exhibition, made possible thanks to the support of Milan Brothers Group (main sponsor) and MB Elettonica (sponsor), can be visited until 11 May and when booking on the website of the Army Force, the entire Saturday and Sunday, Friday April 18 and Friday, April 25, from 9.30 am to 18 (last entry to 16.30).
From 31 May the exhibition will move to the headquarters of the Historical Museum of the Air Force of Vigna di Valle, to Lake Bracciano, recently renewed on the occasion of the Air Force centenary, where it will be open until 13 July with a further discovery path.
“Art must be brought out of the planet, so that its temporary nature is not reduced by terrestrial archeology. It will be a new art … An art that must live for free but mutually dependent on the stars”.
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