December 24th, 2015 – The Fundació Suñol, to celebrate the centenary since the creation of Giacomo Balla’s sculpture “Linee-Forza del pugno di Boccioni II” (1915), presents a selection of works by Italian artists of the Josep Suñol Collection, entitled “Italy. The six senses.” The Italian Cultural Institute of Barcelona has collaborated on the restoration of the “Fiore Futurista” by Giacomo Balla. The exhibition will remain open until January 9. Born in Turin in 1871, Giacomo Balla was, in his hometown and in Rome (where he moved in 1893), a participant in the cultural and humanitarian socialism of scientific positivism, addressing issues such as the urban landscape and human conditions (cycle “of the Living”, 1902-1905), in a language that draws elements from realism, liberty and neo-impressionism. The mature and well-established artist, signed in 1910, with his students Boccioni and Severini, the “Manifesto of Futurist Painters” and “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting”, but his most original contributions began in 1912 with the sequence on motion studies (from “Dynamism of a dog on a leash”, 1912, to the series on the “speeding car”, the “flying swallow”, etc.) and “iridescent interpenetration.” Balla’s interest in pure form and especially for color resulted in investigations of rigorous abstraction. He intensively participated in the Futurist demonstrations, creating and interpreting stage action, drawing clothes, costumes, furniture, designing plastic complexes. His critical view of second futurism, latent in the mid-1920s, was accentuated in the early 1930s, leading to isolation and a search for naturalistic figuration. (Red)
