After studying with Dullio Cambellotti at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he became a leading member of the
Futurist Movement as a painter, scenographer and architect. He had close contacts with the representatives of the European avant-garde art, with the
Section d'Or,
Dadaism, the
Bauhaus,
De Stijl, the
Abstraction-Création group, with
Pablo Picasso,
Piet Mondrian,
Wassily Kandinsky and
Jean Cocteau. From 1913 for a period collaborates with the monthly magazine
Varietas in
Milan. In 1917, with Bino Sanminiatelli he founded the magazine
Noi. The same year, he realised the sets for the futurist film
Thaïs, directed by
Anton Giulio Bragaglia. He created the interior of a dream and suffocating villa, whose walls are decorated with spirals, lozenges, chessboards and symbolic figures. This film had a significant influence on the anti-naturalistic scenes of
German Expressionism. Prampolini's work occupies a place of its own in the European abstract art, characterized by its deep concern for the dynamism and
Organicism, which manifests itself in the cosmic visions and dreams of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1927 he founded the "Futurist Theatre Prampolini". In 1928 he conceived the Futurist Pavilion at the "Esposizione del Valentino" in
Turin, which was realised by
Fillìa and Pino Curtone. Together with Fillia, he realized in 1933 a large mosaic
Le comunicazioni for the tower of the
Palazzo delle Poste in
La Spezia. After the futurist experience, he produced different materials and works, sometimes influenced by the visions of the microcosm. He declared that his aim to express the extreme latitudes of the introspective world. His work was also part of the
painting event in the
art competition at the
1936 Summer Olympics. In 1944 he taught theatre and set design at the
Brera Academy in Milan. ==References==