Metzinger’s work stands out as the first avant-garde painting to depict a sporting event in such an explicit manner: the combination of the chosen topic, testifying to one of the new passions of the French masses, with a Cubist-inspired visual and intellectual approach, caught the attention of Peggy Guggenheim, who bought the painting – now housed at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni - in 1945. Cubo-Futurism (Kubo-Futurizm) was a term used by the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde to describe literary and artistic works that represented a fusion of Cubist and Futurist styles and principles. The painting’s main character is Charles Crupelandt, the winner of the race in 1912, depicted as he pedals through the last few meters of the course, a few instants before achieving glory. While part of the Russian Futurism movement, it was distinguished from the Moscow-based cubo-futurists as it was associated with poets and artists active in Saint Petersburg. Jean Metzinger’s At the Velodrome”, an exhibition curated by Erasmus Weddigen and running from 9 June to 16 September. The exhibition takes its cue from this famous painting by Metzinger (Nantes 1883 – Paris 1956, inspired by the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race, and explores the nature of the “fourth dimension”, time. Ego-Futurism was a Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers. Russian avant-garde art movement in the 1910s that emerged as an offshoot of European Futurism and Cubism. Cubo-Futurism Exhibition Fashion Psychology Inspiration Making.

On the 100th anniversary of Jean Metzinger’s painting At the velodrome (Au Vélodrome), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents “ Cycling, Cubo-Futurism, and the fourth dimension. Posts about Cubo-Futurism written by Emma Neuberg.

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