Andrew Lambirth

Do the locomotion

On the Move: Visualising Action<br /> Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, until 18 April

issue 23 January 2010

On the Move: Visualising Action
Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, until 18 April

The Estorick Collection, which specialises in modern Italian art, has mounted a series of rewarding exhibitions in recent years, all of which bear some essential relationship to its permanent holdings. Futurism remains the best known and most widely celebrated modern Italian art movement, and the current exhibition helps to put in context the Futurist obsession with recording movement through the static image.

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