Reliving the past of futurism

The invention of the airplanes, for example, enabled people to have a higher and broader vision. Su says the experiences of getting closer to the sky dramatically reshaped people's ideas of the world they were living in.

Works on show highlight aviation as one of the recurring themes of futurist art. Flight was enthusiastically cheered in the founding manifesto by Marinetti, and was depicted regularly in the paintings, sculptures and poems in the 1930s. Flight was seen to crystallize the spirit of futurism, as it combined genius, willpower, imagination and aeronautical technologies in the era of industry.