The kinetic and programmed art was an artistic movement that has established itself internationally and found spread in the late fifties, especially in the work of artists such as Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari, Paul Bury and the Group T and N. Developing some insights of the historical avant-garde of the twentieth century, especially of Futurism, Dadaism and Constructivism, these artists experimented with a rich range of possibilities of movement in works of art, from the mechanical to the light or electromagnetic creating mobile structures and constantly changing, but obeying a calculation and a rigorous program.

The artists on display are precisely those of Group T (Anceschi, Boriani, Colombo, De Vecchi, Varisco), Group N (Biasi, Chiggio, Costa, Landi, Massironi), as well as Munari, Mari and Alviani.