Fortunato Depero and the space of Futurist theatricality

Abstract

The presentation is a selective reading of Fortunato Depero’s writings and experimentations highlighting his spatial Futurist inventions. Depero’s inventions are theatrical, in the sense that Marjorie Perloff suggests considering Futurist poetics "theatrical," as the "space between the arts." His ‘plastic complexes’, as proposed as early as 1915, are a free play and new configuration of abstract plastic constructions