Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, the Bishop’s Palace in Portogruaro, in the province of Venice, will host *Luigi Russolo. Rumorcolori*, an exhibition curated by Gabriele Simongini in collaboration with Guido Andrea Pautasso.
The project aims to trace Russolo’s entire artistic career through oil paintings, drawings, engravings, furniture, and *Intonarumori*, accompanied by a series of documents. Born in Portogruaro in 1885, Russolo is one of the central figures of Futurism, and the exhibition has been conceived to mark the 140th anniversary of his birth, with the aim of also kicking off the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of his death in 1947.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the temporary return to Italy of *La Musica*, a 1911 painting on loan from the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London. After being displayed in the major exhibition dedicated to Russolo at the Mart in Rovereto from May 27 to September 17, 2006, the work had not returned to Italy. Its presence in Portogruaro is therefore the result of an exceptional loan granted by the London collection, which has joined the project.
Alongside *La Musica*, other significant museum loans will be on view. The Museo del Novecento in Milan will lend *Self-Portrait with Skulls* (1908), while the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome will lend *Lampi* (1910). The exhibition will also bring together, for the first time in several decades, two parts of *Linee-forza della folgore*, created in 1912. The central part of the work is housed in Portogruaro, while the fragment located at the top left of the original composition comes from a private collection in Rome. The latter will be on view for the first time since it was rediscovered in the early 2000s.
The selection thus encompasses various phases of Russolo’s artistic exploration, connecting his paintings with his drawings, engravings, design work, and sound experiments represented by the *Intonarumori*. The exhibition thus aims to provide a comprehensive overview of his artistic journey, without limiting itself to his Futurist period or his exploration of the relationship between the visual arts and noise.
Luigi Russolo. Rumorcolori is sponsored and organized by the City of Portogruaro – Department of Culture. The project is realized with the support of Interreg Italia-Slovenija Beroots, co-funded by the European Union, the Minister for Sports and Youth Andrea Abodi—who is also responsible for Anniversaries of National Interest—and the Metropolitan City of Venice, and under the patronage of the Veneto Region.
The opening will be preceded by a presentation scheduled for Wednesday, October 14, at 11:00 a.m. in the Council Chamber of Portogruaro City Hall, located at Piazza della Repubblica 1. Speakers will include Mayor Luigi Toffolo and Michele Lipani, deputy mayor and councilor for culture of the Municipality of Portogruaro, along with Federico Mollicone, chair of the Chamber of Deputies’ Culture Committee, curator Gabriele Simongini, and co-curator Guido Andrea Pautasso.
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| Luigi Russolo returns to Portogruaro (Venice) with *La Musica*, on display in Italy for the first time in twenty years |
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