The visit opens with an early 20th century Boccioni - certainly the most present artist in the exhibition - to then continue, through about eighty works, with Balls, Funi, Soffici, Dottori, Carrà and some splendid works by Sironi, all paintings that, starting from the legacy of Milanese collector Antonio Canavese in 1934, are the result of generous donations from the Milanese collections of the families Junker, Grassi and Boschi and that - with the nucleus of futurist works from the Civico Museo d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Reale (CIMAC, currently closed), will make up the central nucleus of the new Arengario Museum, designed by architect Italo Rota and which should be ready by 2005.

The only shortcoming of the exhibit is the setting up: it is difficult to understand the logic of this path where works of undoubted beauty are relegated in odd irrelevant places and, especially, how they are hanging on backgrounds which add nothing to the paintings, if not an element of annoyance.

"Il futurismo a Milano. Anticipazioni per il nuovo museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea"
Where: PAC, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Via Palestro 14, Milano
When: fino al 28 aprile 2002
Opening times: 0930 - 1900; Thursday 930 - 2200; closed Mondays
Tickets: € 5,20; € 2,60 conc.
Mazzotta Catalogue € 38
Info: 02 875 483
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