Benedetta Cappa

Benedetta Cappa (also known simply as "Benedetta", or Benedetta Cappa Marinetti) (1897–1977) was an Italian artist and the wife of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the art movement Futurism of which she was a part. Cappa became absorbed into Futurism while studying under one of the movement's leading figures, Giacomo Balla in Rome in 1917.[1] She married the movement's founder, Marinetti, in 1923.

Cappa was a painter and visual artist as well as a novelist and writer. From November 1998 until February 1999, she was the subject of the first career survey of her art at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2014, for part of its survey of Italian Futurism, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City displayed a set of five murals created by Cappa for the main post office in Palermo, Sicily, titled "Syntheses of Communication", as well as other examples of her works.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/AC73F5BDEEF8DE5D6173.htm
  2. ↑ Donadio, Rachel (21 January 2014). "Guggenheim Is to Show Rare Murals by a Futurist". The New York Times. p. C1. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/5708-guggenheim-museum-presents-unprecedented-survey-of-italian-futurism-opening-in-February