Principales obras de emilio pettoruti biography

He was born on October 1st 1892 in La Plata in the Province of Buenos Aires. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in his native city and practised drawing when visiting the Natural History Museum.

After taking a course in perspective, he began to exhibit his first works in the show windows of Gath & Chaves department store and to publish them in magazines - La Ciudad and Rayos de Sol. In June 1911, he held his first exhibition at the premises of the local daily paper Buenos Aires, which no longer exists.

In 1913, he travelled to Florence where he frequented the futurist avant-garde that, at that time, was holding its first Esposizione d'Arte Futurista "Lacerba".

Principales obras de emilio pettoruti biography

Pettoruti expressed his own idea of the dynamics of things in movement in his Armonía (Harmonies) series. In Italy, he took part in numerous exhibitions and visited several cities, studying different artistic techniques.

Between 1916 and 1917 he lived in Rome where he became friends with the artists of