Boccioni

It also features works from leading modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Natalia Goncharova and Umberto Boccioni.

The painter Umberto Boccioni and the poet Wilfred Owen, on the other side of the front lines, would also not live to see the armistice.

Imagine encountering Umberto Boccioni’s 1913 bronze sculpture “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” without being able to see it.

Abigail Shaw, who has been blind since birth, ran her hands over and around Boccioni’s sculpture, unable to identify at first what she was feeling.

Kevin Beauchamp, who has what he described as a very small field of “useful vision,” also commented on the Boccioni.