Avant-garde Ceramics: Fortunato Depero

"The work of Fortunato Depero is an alien encounter in our postmodern, post-pandemic world. The Italian Futurist used bright primary colors to illustrate glossy robotic figures in tilting cityscapes. He worked across every conceivable medium: paintings, posters, graphic design, costume design, toys ... "

" ... As a sculptor, Depero was heavily indebted to Balla’s research into movement, abstract line-forces, light, and pictorial equivalents to sound impressions. Consequently, he moved away from conventional static constructions and began to work on kinetic assemblages, which he called Complessi plastici ... "

"Like many of his Futurist peers, Fortunato Depero was a man of many ideas, realized through an array of artistic media and genres. His art can be found in both Europe and the United States, but also in the Galleria Museo Depero he established, and his name is written on the Futurist manifesto. But these are just some of the aspects in the life of one of Italy’s most prominent cultural figures ... "