Antonello Magiera: Marinetti’s astronave

On the eve of the First World War and fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the son of a millionaire, wrote the Futurist Manifesto. His theses still seem like a dark prophecy today: ‘We want to glorify war—the only hygiene of the world—militarism, patriotism, the annihilation of anarchists, the beautiful ideas for which one dies, and contempt for women.’The spatially appealing objects floating in endless space by young artist and architect Antonello Magiera refer to the imagery resulting from this manifesto. However, they provide a feminist counter-concept. His possible spaceships are inspired by the science fiction novels of Octavia E. Butler. Her visions of spaceships and aliens are characterised by organic thinking and the constructive power of transformation and symbiosis.