Una Casa Futurista
Dopo il grande successo della mostra Casa Balla. Dalla casa all’universo e ritorno, prosegue fino al 31 dicembre 2022 l’apertura al pubblico della straordinaria casa futurista a Roma, in cui Giacomo Balla visse e lavorò dal 1929 fino alla morte, nel 1958.
È l’estate del 1929 quando la famiglia Balla si trasferisce nell’abitazione di via Oslavia, nel quartiere Della Vittoria. Un appartamento “impiegatizio” che per Giacomo Balla, la moglie Elisa Marcucci e le due figlie Luce ed Elica, anch’esse pittrici, diverrà la casa della vita, il luogo eletto trasformato dalla famiglia in opera d’arte.
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Casa Balla is a laboratory of experimentation made of painted walls and doors, decorated furniture and furnishings, self-made utensils, paintings and sculptures, clothes designed and sewn in the house, and many other objects that, together, created a unique and kaleidoscopic total project. The house is a workshop, a universe dotted with shapes and colors. Even today, there is an atmosphere echoing the ideas expressed in the manifesto on the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, signed by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero in 1915. In the Balla universe, functionality and aesthetics coexist, creating a new and vital union: Art invests everything and the objects designed and built for everyday use, tables, chairs, shelves, easels, ashtrays, plates, tiles, although poor in materials, are very rich in the creative vein and make the apartment a magical place of metamorphosis.
Casa Balla, an intellectual salon for many personalities in art and culture, closed its doors in the 1990s with the disappearance of the Signorine Balla. Declared of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture in 2004, only today, thanks to a long and careful work of investigation, study and securing of the property curated by MAXXI and the Special Superintendence of Rome, in collaboration with the heirs, has it been possible to set up the House with the works of the Master and his daughters, and finally make it accessible to the public. All photos M3 Studio, courtesy MAXXI MAXXI.art
