Umberto Boccioni - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913
117x87x36cm sculpture, bronze
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
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From Tate Modern, London:
In the early years of the twentieth century, industrialisation swept across Italy. The futurist movement was founded by writers and artists like Umberto Boccioni, who enthused about new inventions such as cars and electricity. In Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the figure is aerodynamically deformed by speed. Boccioni exaggerated the body’s dynamism so that it embodied the urge towards progress. The sculpture may reflect ideas of the mechanised body that appeared in futurist writings, as well as the ‘superman’ envisaged by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.