Luigi Fillia Biography
Luigi Fillia, (1904-1936) born Luigi Colombo (Fillia was his mother's surname), is a multi-talented Italian futurist artist.
He was active on the artistic avant-garde front, fully embracing the futurist spirit, in the period defined as second futurism, of which he was the founder and leader of the Turin region. In 1922, the year of his first exhibition, he co-wrote the booklet "Proletarian Poetry" and in 1923 he founded the Futurist Artistic Union in Turin, promoting a proletarian revolution in a futurist tone. In 1928, he organized the Futurist Pavilion for the Turin International Exhibition. His initial activity was strongly linked to the word, both in theater and poetry, but he also dedicated himself to painting, with a style initially linked to abstraction and then reaching a figuration defined as cosmic.
He also carried out critical and historical activity. He founded the publications "La Città Futurista" in 1929 and "La Città Nuova" in 1931. In the latter year, he was responsible for the publication of an important international repertoire, "La Nuova Architettura", and signed the "Manifesto of the Sacred Futurist on 'art' with Marinetti. Recently, some of his pictorial works on sacred art have been discovered, a classic theme of the Italian tradition, revised in a futuristic spiritual-mechanical experimental key. In 1932, again with Marinetti, he signed "La Cucina Futurista". In 1933, with Enrico Prampolini, he executed the large futurist mosaic "Communications" inside the tower of the Palazzo delle Poste in La Spezia. He died in 1936 in Turin.
