Depero returns to the exhibition in Milan for an unusual confrontation

A Renaissance-style fireplace perfectly embodies the features of twentieth-century futurism. The combination is exemplary and the prestigious context adds, marries and thus innovates, opening up to unusual interactions and worlds. All this in an admirable synthesis is at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum with the exhibition Depero Space to Space, the Creation of Memory, curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Antonio D'Amico.

'There is a similarity between this house, which is a 19th-century house, but furnished as if it were a Renaissance house, and Depero's museum house in Rovereto, although today it is called the Futurist Art House,' curator Boschiero tells us.

And again, "Depero, he christened it his museum and it has a similar appearance because it is a stone house, it is a building that had been a hospital in the Middle Ages and then, in earlier times, a pawnshop instead. Qso this antiquity served Depero to orchestrate an arrangement of his paintings within a museum that was not what he would have wanted, because he would have wanted it from scratch. But this ability, in my opinion, to arrange the place so that it eventually becomes the one that supports his work seems to me a very good thing,' Boschiero concludes

The merit of this exhibition - which brings Fortunato Depero back to Milan 35 years after the last retrospective dedicated to him, through a truly astonishing itinerary in the rooms of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum - lies in having been able to decontextualise an artist, whom history and critics have rather marginalised.

Depero Space to Space, The Creation of Memory, Milan, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Antonio D'Amico, until 2 August