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Umberto Boccioni

was born in Reggio Calabria in 1882 to parents from the Romagna region who were in Calabria for work at the time of his birth. Boccioni spent his childhood between the north and south of Italy: Genoa, Padua, and Catania are some of the cities that welcomed him during his youth and helped fuel his hunger for knowledge and travel, which would later take him to Paris, Russia, and Germany, where he came into contact with contemporary artistic movements. Upon his arrival in Milan, where he met the Divisionists and Marinetti, he would later become one of the most prominent exponents of the Futurist movement.

Boccioni's paintings , an example of the Futurist search, shows the interest in contemporaneity, machines, urban life, and the present. In Boccioni's paintings, the careful study of movement and speed stands out, the pursuit of a dynamism that Boccioni himself claims is missing from Cubist paintings, which are too static. As is also the case with other Futurist artists, for example Fortunato Depero, research and study are not limited to painting alone, but go further: sculpture and literature, in fact, will be two other fields in which Boccioni will demonstrate his genius.