In line with the twenty-year history of its art exhibitions, linked to the development of local culture, the Ferrero Foundation, which makes use of the scientific collaboration of the GAM of Turin and the Superintendency of Fine Arts of Piedmont, dedicates an exhibition to Giacomo Balla and to Futurism.
The project envisages an exhibition divided into thematic sections: social realism and pointillist technique; iridescent interpenetrations and studies on the perception of light.
In the works that follow his first apprenticeship in Turin, the gaze penetrates the painful and cruel reality of the classes on the edge of society. A large number of works will document this phase – between the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century – during which, in parallel with themes of suffering and alienation, the artist will develop a very high technical sensibility, whose origins lie in Piedmontese divisionism. The brushstroke rich in luminous filaments, the strong contrast between light and dark, the choice of bold and extreme perspective cuts will represent a unique and extraordinary model to follow for future adherents of the Futurist Manifesto.
Alba exhibition he will then highlight his adherence to the poetics of Futurism. From the realism of the first paintings we will witness the transposition of the previous compositional principles in the dynamic and abstract material of the iridescent Interpenetrations with large chromatic blocks, to the recomposition of the new reality in movement in the Speed Lines.
In a progressive approach to pure mathematical signs: vertical, diagonal, spiral, Balla's language discovers new categories of representation in its primary parameters, in the amplification of the physical phenomenon, isolated, sectioned and framed in all its truth of vibrating matter. A vision capable of reaching the maximum depths, but also breaking through the limits of the frame, in a game of relaunching towards life.
The works on the itinerary belong to prestigious public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad, and it will be possible to admire extraordinary masterpieces, which are difficult to borrow: the Polyptych of the Living, in its entirety, from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and from the Academy of San Luca in Rome, The Violinist's Hand from the Estorick Collection in London, the Little Girl Running on the Balcony from the Museo del Novecento in Milan, the Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Flight of Swallows from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Abstract Speed + Noise on loan from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, which will be combined with Abstract Speed. The car passed by the Tate Modern in London, and again a Running Car from The Israel Museum of Jerusalem. Just to mention a few.
