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These artworks are part of a series of 22 paintings made by Giacomo Balla for the top portion of the corridor in his house in via Oslavia 39b, in Rome. Most of the other paintings are preserved on site and have the same format of 77 x 77 cm, but all vary in composition and palette, rielaborating the themes developed by the artist since the 1910s.
"Motivo con la parola Balla" (Motif with the word Balla) is a composition developed by starting from the artis's own name, the letters of his signature define different coloured areas serving as margins and literally blending in the bidimensional space within the frame.
"Primavera" (Spring) is full of light, life, wit, buoyancy, a subject widely revisited by Giacomo Balla, here the elements to his interpretation of the season are more blunt all the while dialoguing with one another in harmony.
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We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms and elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.
Giacomo Balla was a signatary of the Futurist Manifesto in 1910 and key proponent of the movement. Before adhering to Futurism, Balla had been a teacher of Divisionist to Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Mario Sironi, he was later influenced by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti to adopt the Futurist style. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, tending towards the witty and whimsical, he was inspired by chronophotographic experiments led by Marey and Muybridge.
After Boccioni's death in 1916 he started signing all his works with the pseudonym "FuturBalla". Balla was a polymath, he produces Paroliberist works, designed objects, scenes for Ballet Russes
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Casa Balla
Past viewing_room
