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3 unusual facts about Luigi Russolo


Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

That year, Marinetti discovered some allies in three young painters, (Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo), who adopted the Futurist philosophy.

Luigi Russolo

As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo’s legendary Intonarumori instruments.

Ugo Piatti

Piatti enrolled at the Brera Academy in 1903 and came into contact with the Milanese Futurists in the early years of the next decade, collaborating with Luigi Russolo on intonarumori (noise-making) machines and making his debut at the Famiglia Artistica in 1911.


Cercle et Carré

April 1930 the group opened an exhibition in Galerie 23 at Rue La Boétie with works by Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pierre Daura, Antoine Pevsner, Luigi Russolo, Georges Vantongerloo and others.


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