Arrigo Lora Totino

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Arrigo Lora Totino (born August 3, 1928 in Turin ; † September 15, 2016 there ) was an Italian pioneer of sound art , sound poetry and concrete poetry .

life and work

Lora Totino founded the literary magazine antipiugiù in 1960 , which focused on concrete poetry. With the composer Enore Zaffiri and the painter Sandro de Alxandris he founded the Studio di Informazione Estetica in 1964 . In 1966 Lora Totino published the first edition of Modulo , an international anthology on concrete poetry. With Carlo Belloli he founded the Museum of Contemporary Poetry in Turin in the 1960s .

Lora Totino was the inventor of various sound amplifiers and instruments, for example the rotor megafono , idromegafono and hydromegafono .

From 1974 Lora Totino appeared as a performance artist, for a time in black tights. Well-known are poetry gymnastics , liquid poetry and mime declamations , performances in which speech is supplemented by noise, movement and gestures.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , accessed on March 2, 2017
  2. ↑ [2] , accessed on March 2, 2017
  3. ↑ artfinding biography Arrigo Lora Totino ( memento of October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 3, 2015
  4. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 326; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  5. ↑ Arrigo Lora-Totino , accessed on October 3, 2015 (English).
  6. ↑ Ulu Arrigo Lora-Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
  7. ↑ wendtroot Arrigo Lora-Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
  8. ↑ Madre Napoli Arrigo Lora Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lora Totino, Arrigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pioneer of sound art, sound poetry and concrete poetry
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2016
Place of death Turin