Luigi Russolo
dal 3/10/2006 al 16/12/2006
Segnalato da
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Luigi Russolo
Gaetano Previati
Umberto Boccioni
Carlo Carra'
Gino Severini
Romolo Romani
Ugo Piatti
Anna Gasparotto
Franco Tagliapietra
3/10/2006
Luigi Russolo
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
Life and Works of a Futurist. The exhibition, organised by the MART di Trento e Rovereto and the Estorick Collection, explores his artistic development. It features his complete output of engravings, alongside a selection of his Futurist and pre-Futurist paintings and works by his closest artistic associates: Previati, Boccioni, Carra', Severini, Romani and Piatti. Russolo's noise-intoners have been specially reconstructed for the exhibition, and the public will be invited to interact with them.
Life and Works of a Futurist
Curators: Anna Gasparotto and Franco Tagliapietra
Luigi Russolo: Life and Works of a Futurist, on view at the Estorick
Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, from
Wednesday 4 October to Sunday 17 December 2006, is an exhibition of
noise-intoners, paintings, engravings and archive material by this
outstanding Futurist artist.
By selecting, co-ordinating and dominating all noises, we will enrich men
with a new and unexpected sensual pleasure : the art of noises. (Luigi
Russolo, ‘The Art of Noises’, Lacerba, 1913)
As well as being one of the earliest composers and the genius of Futurist
music, Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) was also an instrument builder, a signatory
of the ‘Manifesto of Futurist Painters’, an engraver, a mystic and a scholar
of Oriental philosophy. He was one of the most original personalities of
Futurism - of which he was both a founder and a theorist - and this is the
first major retrospective exhibition of his work.
The exhibition, organised by the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Trento e Rovereto (MART) and the Estorick Collection, explores his artistic
development. Russolo’s noise-intoners - created by the artist to
‘harmoniously and rhythmically intone and regulate’ noises - have been
specially reconstructed for the exhibition, and the public will be invited
to interact with them. The exhibition also features his complete output of
engravings, alongside a selection of his Futurist and pre-Futurist paintings
and works by his closest artistic associates: Gaetano Previati, Umberto
Boccioni, Carlo Carra', Gino Severini, Romolo Romani and Ugo Piatti.
Organised by:
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e
Rovereto (MART) and the Estorick Collection
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
39a Canonbury Square - London
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11.00 - 18.00 hours, Sunday 12.00 -
17.00 hours