Arrigo Lora Totino
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.
Web links
- Discogs Arrigo Lora Totino
- artnet Arrigo Lora Totino
- Foundazione Bonotto Arrigo Lora Totino
- Saltinaria Arrigo Lora Totino, Torino 12 - 30 September 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , accessed on March 2, 2017
- ↑ [2] , accessed on March 2, 2017
- ↑ artfinding biography Arrigo Lora Totino ( memento of October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 3, 2015
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 326; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
- ↑ Arrigo Lora-Totino , accessed on October 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Ulu Arrigo Lora-Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
- ↑ wendtroot Arrigo Lora-Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Madre Napoli Arrigo Lora Totino accessed on October 3, 2015 (English)
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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 |