Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero

Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero in Rovereto embodies Fortunato Depero's ambition to bring art into every part of life. Paintings, fabric works, graphics and furniture connect his Futurist experiments with the spaces he helped shape.

Why it matters

Depero treated applied art as central to his creative work, not as a lesser category. The museum preserves that relationship between images, objects and interiors, alongside his contribution to advertising and graphic design.

What to notice

The fabric compositions translate boldly coloured forms into sewn surfaces. Their production involved Depero's wife Rosetta and seamstresses as well as the artist. Graphic works include his celebrated bolted book of 1927. Furniture and decorative objects extend the same search for an integrated artistic environment.

Context and history

An agreement with Rovereto in 1957 provided the basis for the museum and its collection of about three thousand objects. It was inaugurated in 1959, before Depero's death in 1960. A restoration and expansion designed by Renato Rizzi led to its reopening in 2009.