TATO

Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni, 1886-1974) .

Tato, born in Bologna in 1886, died in Rome  in 1774, was an Italian futurist artist, one of the protagonists of aeropainting. Tato emerged after the First World War as a leader of the Emilian Futurist group.

In 1920 he organized a fake funeral in order to die as “Guglielmo Sansoni” and to reborn as the Futurist Tato. He met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for the first time in Bologna in 1922 and they became friends. From 1922 until the early Forties he was present in Futurist exhibitions and active as a creator and organizer.  His Casa d’Arte in Bologna also produced designs for interior decoration.  In 1924 he moved to Rome.  He signed the Manifesto of Futurist Aeropainting, 1929 and with Marinetti launched the Manifesto of Futurist Photography, 1930.  In 1934 he cosigned the manifestos on Mural Plastic Art and African Poetry, Music and Architecture, with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fillia and Carlo Cocchia.