Art Bites: ENRICO PRAMPOLINI AEROPITTURA IV, 1930
The concept of 'aeropittura' was introduced in 1929 by Marinetti, who published the 'Manifesto dell'aeropittura futurista' (Futurist Aeropainting Manifesto) on 22 September in Turin's 'La Gazzetta del Popolo' with Balla, Benedetta, Depero, Fillia, Prampolini, Somenzi and Tato as co-signatories, but it had already started to spread among some Futurist painters in the mid-1920s.
The success of Aeropittura was such that in 1939, for the 3rd Quadriennale d'Arte Nazionale, a group exhibition was held entitled precisely "Mostra futurista di aeropittori e aeroscultori" (Futurist exhibition of aeropainters and aerosculptors) and for the occasion Marinetti wrote an introduction in which he analysed this trend in detail for the first time, classifying the movement into four pictorial and two aerosculptural declinations. Aeropainting artists evolved the concepts of speed and dynamism not only through trains, cars or motorbikes, but also through physical and mental visions that were absolutely innovative for the world of the time.
