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PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION |
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At Brescia Montichiari "G.D'Annunzio" Airport With the support of Verona Airport "Valerio Catullo", a photographic
exhibition is opened in December inside Brescia Montichiari Airport "G. D'Annunzio". The exibition will be dedicated to "D'Annunzio and flight promotion" on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers 'deed.
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| Wright Brothers |
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PASSION
"In the night sky our soul turns blue and starry" |
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SECTIONS |
The photographic exibition shows, through pictures and literary documents,
D'Annunzio's interest for the beginning of flight. |
- Flight pioneers
- The first Italian plane factory
- Montichiari International flight contest (1909)
- The Manifesto
- The Building of the airport
- The competitions
- The winners
- D'Annunzio on board of a plane
- D'Annunzio and flight
- D'Annunzio's flight over Trieste (1915)
- D'Annunzio's flight over Vienna (1918)
- The beginning of Italian aviation (1923)
- Balbo's and De Pinedo's flights
- The high speed school in Desenzano |
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The exibition will make use of various old documents kept in the Archives of the Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera.
with the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce of Brescia |
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| In 1909 flying was only a sport and the organizers of the First International Flight Competition held in Montichiari thought that
Gabriele D'Annunzio was the perfect man to take part in such a contest. They wanted the poet to express the thrill which those "flying machines" could give to people. They invited him to fly a plane, so he left his Pisa shores for Montichiari. He went there in his car which he had been already using for two years. After driving at a speed of 60 km per hour, he got to Montichiari! The well-equipped airfield was crowed with people; there were fifty thousand spectators. D'Annunzio soared together with Glenn Curtiss, an American aviator and Mario Calderara.
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Mario Calderara
the first Italian pilot's licence |
L'ombra d'Icaro ancor pè caldi seni
del mar mediterraneo si spazia.
[...] subitamente vidi
ignuda l'ombra d'Icaro apparire.
Quasi il color marino
aveano assunto le sue membra,
ma gli occhi eran solari. |
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| Tribute to modernity |
| 1909 was the year of Futurism which openly stated its sensational existence. It was a sort of "birth certificate". The famous, magnificent Manifesto was published on 20th February in the "Figaro", a Paris newspaper. |
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Filippo Marinetti was the leader of this new ideological and esthetical movement. He was born in Alessandria (Egypt), but he lived in Milan. Futurism involved not only art but life-style and behaviour, as well. Literature, music, drama, painting, sculpture , architecture, ballet, photography, cinema, fashion ,press, cooking, design were all affected by this new movement which was also characterized by the "moral religion of speed" which placed cars among top machines. "We do think that the magnificence of the world has been enriched by a new wonder : the beauty of speed. A racing car with its huge pipes looking like fire breathing snakes…a roaring car which seems to speed over a machine gun are more exciting than the Victory of Samotracia… We'll sing the huge crowd upset by work, pleasure and riots:
we'll sing the multicolour and polyphonic mobs of modern capitals.
We'll sing the quivering night activities of arsenals and shipyards |
| blazed by violent, electric moons; we'll sing the greedy stations eating up smoking snakes; we'll sing workshops hanging from the twisted wires of their smoke and giant-like gymnasts jumping over rivers with their glittering knives shining to the sun. We'll sing the brave steamships looking for the horizon, the broad-chested steam-engines pawing on the rails like huge steel horses bridled by their pipes. We'll sing the gliding flights of aeroplanes whose propellers flutter in the wind like flags clapping like an excited crowd. Here in Italy we are announcing this bewildering and incendiary manifesto to the whole world. Today we are starting Futurism because we want to free this country from its stinking canker of professors, archaeologists, cicerones and antique dealers |
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Vittoriale degli Italiani di Gardone Riviera - Brescia (Italia) |
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