Achille Funi's Comprehensive Retrospective at Palazzo dei Diamanti

A major retrospective at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara traces the entire career of Achille Funi (1890–1972), a key figure in early 20th-century Italian art. The exhibition covers his evolution from Futurism and Cubist-Futurist experiments to his role as a founder of the Novecento group, his engagement with Metaphysical painting, and his later classical works. Funi, praised by Umberto Boccioni as "the most solid, most sincere painter," blended Renaissance influences from Ferrara's Quattrocento with modernism from Cézanne, Picasso, and Derain. The show includes preparatory sketches for his monumental fresco cycle in Ferrara's Palazzo Municipale (1934–1937), which narrates the city's history through myth and legend. Funi's wartime service in World War I and his later Fascist affiliation are contextualized. The exhibition runs at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, curated by Niccolò Lucarelli.