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Luigi Colombo, also known by the pseudonym Fillìa (Revello, 3 October 1904 – Turin, 10 February 1936), was an Italian poet and painter. A multifaceted futurist artist in tackling various artistic problems, he took his pseudonym from his maternal surname. Read the full biography

(luigi Colombo) Fillia Biography

Luigi Colombo, also known by the pseudonym Fillìa (Revello, 3 October 1904 – Turin, 10 February 1936), was an Italian poet and painter. A multifaceted futurist artist in tackling various artistic problems, he took his pseudonym from his maternal surname. Perhaps in anticipation of a short life he moved in an animated and active way on the artistic avant-garde front, above all embracing the futurist spirit in its entirety. In 1922 he co-authored the booklet Poesia proletarian and in 1923 he formed the Futurist Artistic Unions in Turin, promoters of a proletarian revolution in a futurist key. In 1928 he organized the Futurist Pavilion for the Turin International Exhibition. His initial activity is strongly linked to the word, both in theater and poetry, but also leads to painting, with a style initially linked to abstraction and then reaching a figuration that is defined as cosmic. Publishes the magazine La terra dei vivi. He also carries out critical and historical activities and founded the publications La Città Futurista in 1929 and La Città Nuova in 1931. In the latter year, he edited the publication of an important international repertoire La Nuova Architettura and signed the Manifesto of Futurist sacred art with Marinetti . A series of his pictorial works on sacred art, a classic theme of the Italian tradition, revisited in an experimental futurist spiritual-mechanical key, has recently been highlighted. In 1931, again with Marinetti, he signed the Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine and exhibited at the first Quadrennial in Rome. In 1933, with Enrico Prampolini, he executed the large futurist mosaic Communications inside the tower of the Palazzo delle Poste in La Spezia. His work Untitled, 1923, is preserved at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano. He died in Turin, the city where he had almost always lived and worked, in 1936, after a long illness.