Dinamo

Rob Womack
reverse painting on glass
twenty pieces

DINAMO (dee-nah-mo): Italian for dynamo; A 1919 periodical published by the avant garde Italian Futurist art movement; the electric culinary energy generated by Ed Vasaio, Mya Anitai and Brad Wein at a restaurant of the same name in Richmond, Virginia.

FUTURISMO (fyoo-cher-eez-mo): The exciting early 20th century ultra, ultra outré Italian modern art movement that glorifies Speed! Automobiles! Motorcycles! Aeroplanes! The Future! Also Industrialism! Nationalism! Militarism! Flags! and Exclamation Marks!!!!!!!

DINAMO: A collection of twenty early 21st century neo-modernist art works on glass at the aforementioned restaurant, in which Coloratura goes forward by looking backwards at a backwards way of looking forward: Futurismo!

Photos by David Stover