MAG Marsiglione Arts Gallery
Presents
LUIGI RUSSOLO
L’arte dei rumori
CONCURRENTLY WITH THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MANIFESTO’S PUBLICATION, ADDRESSED TO BALILLA PRATELLA BY LUIGI RUSSOLO ABOUT “L’ARTE DEI RUMORI”
By Simona Bartolena and Salvatore Marsiglione
With the valuable help of the Prof. Pietro Verardo
From 11 March to 6 April 2013
Opening: Monday 11 March 2013 at 18.30
From Tuesday to Saturday 10 | 19.30
Side events:
11 March | at 21.00 | Prof. Verardo and Prof.ssa Guglielmini Tieri’s conference about Luigi Russolo as futurist musician
22 March | at 21.00 | Prof.ssa Simona Bartolena’s conference about Luigi Russolo as painter
Marsiglione Arts Gallery
Via Vitani, 31
22100 Como, Italy
Tel:+39 328 7521463
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CENTENARY OF “L’ARTE DEI RUMORI”
For the centenary of the publication of “Manifesto dell’Arte e dei Rumori”, MAG wants celebrate one of the most emblematic and important person of all the XX century.
Eclectic, avant-garde and innovator, Luigi Russolo, author of the manifesto addressed to his dear friend Balilla Pratella, writes:
11 March 1913 Luigi Russolo
Dear Balilla Pratella, great futurist musician,
In Rome, at the crowded theater Costanzi,while, with my futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, Cavacchioli, I was listening to your orchestral performance of your passionate futurist music, appeared to my mind a new kind of art that only you could create: l'Arte dei Rumori, logic consequence of your wonderful innovations.
The exhibition collects an original copy of the manifesto, a series of paintings and drawings, engravings and a collection of letters between the artist and the mentor of Futurism: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
The whole artistic project will start from MAG, Como, which manages the Luigi Russolo’s archive, then it will transfer at Heart SPAZIO VIVO, Vimercate, where, further the paintings, it will be analyzed the musical aspect that define nowadays electronic and concrete music.
In addition to the exhibition, there will be two conferences about the poliedric figure of Russolo: the first one focused on the musical aspect, hold by Prof. Pietro Verardo and Prof.ssa Guglielmina Tieri, while the second one on the pictorial aspect, hold by Prof.ssa Simona Bartolena.
