Futurist aesthetics finds its origins in a novel approach to the conception of artistic creation, which moves beyond the boundaries of traditional fine arts and seeks to embrace daily life in its totality, in order to become a “total art” that might engender a new bond between art and life.

This breadth of material creates an opportunity for Homage to Bauhaus 1919-2019, a cameo-exhibition dedicated to the important German avant grade movement, active from 1919 to 1933. 

Hopper’s peculiarity was to also use very cheap machines and to develop the films with the non-professional tools that were found in drugstores where he often stopped when he was on the road, maybe passing through to get to Kansas where he was born. Hopper’s photographs recount his America in an attempt to capture the socio-cultural changes of a frontier country by showing us landscapes and characters as in a film never filmed.

One of the best known artists on the international scene, Struth takes us in realms and forbidden zones to which we do not normally have access, giving us a glimpse into the unexplored world behind technological innovation in 25 works on display at the MAST PhotoGallery. Space research labs, plasma fusion experiments, operating theatres, and a drilling platform are photographed with painstaking precision and a remarkable visual sensibility.

Rottenberg uses the various languages of film, architectural installation and sculpture to explore the concepts of class, work, gender and value by means of visual image devices which throw light on the connections and concealed processes behind apparently unrelated global economies. Interweaving fictional and documentary data in stories in which geographies and narratives collapse into surreal non-sense, the artist creates complex allegories on the capitalist system which regulates the human condition and massive goods production processes.

The exhibition, which comes from the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève as a strongly revised version for the spaces of Villa delle Rose, features artwork from the last 50 years including paintings, frottage, grisaille, photographs, films, books and documents related to Trbuljak's artistic life.