Performance Live @ Spazio Soderini

Live performance by the Fu*Turista group during Athos Collura's exhibition.
PROVINCE OF MILAN > OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE.

Milan, 30 June 2014

Wednesday 2 July at Spazio Soderini: live performance by the FU*TURISTA group, as part of the exhibition "ATHOS COLLURA. CRASH! Ogni sogno infranto. Atto II".

Wednesday 2 July, 5 pm, at Spazio Soderini, Via Strozzi corner of Via Soderini, Milan: live performance by the Fu*Turista group as part of the exhibition "Crash! Ogni sogno infranto. Atto II" (Crash! Every shattered dream. Act II), a large retrospective of the painter and set designer Athos Collura, on at Spazio Soderini until 18 July.

The Fu*Turista art group is made up of Iucu, painter/sculptor; Lele Picà, painter/sculptor; Giammatteo Rona, lawyer and photographer/painter; Alessandro D'Aquila, graphic designer/painter.
"Fu" stands for the past: the Fu*turista wants to preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of the past and at the same time to innovate through the enthusiasm of discovery and the challenge of experimentation, the eagerness to measure oneself against the new and the different.
The artists arrive with paints, canvases and brushes and make immediate art "on site", depicting the objects that inspire them according to the research of the moment. It is a way of scraping away the crust of vulgarity and superstructure that contaminates art, fully in tune with the denunciation of the "commodification" of art as just another market product contained in Maestro Athos Collura's barcodes.
Their incursion into the open exhibition will take place in direct contact with the surrounding space, the objects and the audience, to the point of physical contact, travelling backwards in an age of virtual, remote and impersonal relationships. From the virtual, which increasingly fills our time and our spaces, the Fu*Turisti return to tangible things, to the real. They will be at Spazio Soderini to bear witness to the creative path of the Maestro, Sicilian by birth and Milanese by adoption, always ahead of the times, at times prophetic.

"ATHOS COLLURA - CRASH! OGNI SOGNO INFRANTO. ATTO II" is an exhibition promoted by the Province of Milan with the patronage of the City of Pavia and the Musei Civici di Pavia. It is open at the Province of Milan's Spazio Soderini, Via Strozzi corner of Via Soderini, Milan, until 18 July 2014. Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 11 am to 7 pm.
Catalogue published by Bandecchi e Vivaldi Editori.

"Athos Collura's exhibition, hosted by the Province of Milan in the renovated space in Via Soderini," say Guido Podestà, President of the Province of Milan, and Novo Umberto Maerna, Vice President and Councillor for Culture, "gives each of us the chance to reflect on two elements that are forever linked: art and the present. A pairing that grew stronger above all during the twentieth century, when artistic forms and pictorial, or other, representations were often tied to cultural or social movements. Art has always been closely bound up with modernity and its developments."