Casa Russolo dedicated to artist Luigi Russolo opens in Portogruaro.

Casa Russolo, a space dedicated to Luigi Russolo that will become a permanent gallery, will open in Portogruaro on June 15, 2018.

The artist signed the Manifesto of Futurist Painting together with Boccioni, Carrà, Severini and Balla, and began his artistic activity with a series of engravings, exhibited in Casa Russolo. The last ten years of the painter’s life were characterized by landscape and portrait painting.

The new space dedicated to him will display the entire collection of original plates of all his etchings and many of his oil paintings owned by the Municipality of Portogruaro, as well as an extensive multimedia documentation of his production.

In addition to being a painter, Luigi Russolo also invented theIntonarumori, an instrument capable of modulating noises, of synthesizing them: an innovative technique for twentieth-century music.

Image: Luigi Russolo, Impressions of a Bombing (1926).

Casa Russolo dedicated to artist Luigi Russolo opens in Portogruaro.

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