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Time is Out of Joint
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HOT SPOT – Caring For a Burning World
24/10/2022-26/02/2023
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Franco Vimercati. The World in a Grain of Sand
07/06/2023-10/09/2023
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Libro morto: la mostra
04/05/2023-21/05/2023
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Food Age. Food as Influencer
31/03/2023-11/06/2023
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Daniela Comani. YOU ARE MINE
17/10/2022-12/02/2023
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INTERTWINGLED – The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design
21/03/2022-04/09/2022
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VASCO BENDINI. OMBRE PRIME
29/03/2022-19/06/2022
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Ettore Spalletti. The Sky in a Room
25/10/2021-20/02/2022
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The Poetry of simplicity. Fashion and design according to Monica Bolzoni/Bianca e Blu
14/12/2021-21/03/2022
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Antonietta Raphaël. Attraverso lo specchio
17/11/2021-30/01/2022
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A Short Video History of (Nearly) Everything
23/11/2020-02/05/2021
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Cosmowomen. Places as Constellations
21/06/2021-10/10/2021
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Io dico Io – I say I
01/03/2021-05/06/2021
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Out of focus
08/03/2021-05/06/2021
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Nationalism Domestic
10/12/2020-15/02/2021
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On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
16/07/2019-29/09/2019
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Robert Morris. Monumentum 2015–2018
15/10/2019-01/03/2020
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Connection Gallery – Invernomuto. Prima delle Sabbie
15/10/2019-12/01/2020
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Giuseppe Uncini. Balanced Reality
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Family portrait
18/06/2019-29/09/2019
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Connection Gallery – Andrea Mastrovito. Very Bad Things
18/06/2019-29/09/2019
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Joint is Out of Time
22/01/2019-02/06/2019
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ilmondoinfine: vivere tra le rovine
13/12/2018-23/01/2019
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Mimmo Rotella Manifesto
30/10/2018-10/02/2019
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Giulia Napoleone. Realtà in equilibrio
16/10/2018-06/01/2019
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The truth is always another - dialogue between two collections
20/09/2018-11/11/2018
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BRIC-à-brac | The Jumble of Growth | 另一种选择
17/07/2018-14/10/2018
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Carlo Lorenzetti, Bruno Conte. Realtà in equilibrio
19/06/2018-30/09/2018
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I is an Other / Be the Other
20/03/2018-24/06/2018
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Looking forward. Olivetti: 110 years of imagination
20/02/2018-03/06/2018
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Beat Generation. Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti. Viaggio in Italia
16/02/2018-02/04/2018
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Filippo Palizzi. The uncontaminated universe of an artist in the mid-1800s
15/12/2017-28/01/2018
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Scorribanda
23/01/2018-04/03/2018
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Palma Bucarelli. Renato Guttuso
03/10/2017-26/11/2017
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Konrad Mägi
10/10/2017-28/01/2018
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It’s Just a Beginning. 1968
03/10/2017-14/01/2018
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Corpo a corpo | Body To Body
22/06/2017-25/09/2017
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/Uncinematic. George Drivas
22/06/2017-24/09/2017
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Conversation Piece
19/05/2017-17/09/2017
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Genius Loci. In the theater of art
04/04/2017-04/06/2017
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Museum Beauty Contest directed by Paco Cao. Portraits exhibition
21/02/2017-01/05/2017
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Giacomo Balla. A Wave of Light
20/02/2017-26/03/2017
The Galleria Nazionale’s sizable collection of works by Giacomo Balla owes to the enlightened generosity of his daughters, appreciative of the museum’s effort as early as 1971 to organize a major retrospective of their father’s work, which catalyzed newfound interest in Balla’s contribution to half a century of Italian art and his centrality to the Futurist movement.
The 35 paintings donated by Elica and Luce Balla in 1984 (with paperwork finalized in 1988) filled in gaps in the Galleria’s collection with masterpieces such as La pazza (1905, from Polittico dei viventi) and Affetti (1910), as well as key works from his Futurist period that the Galleria had lacked until then—notably two tablets from Compenetrazioni iridescenti (1912), studies on velocity, Dimostrazioni interventiste (1915), spiritualist paintings from the 1920s, and works from his final figurative period which at the time had received little attention.
When Luce Balla died in 1994, she left the Galleria another set of works, designating Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco to select from among paintings, drawings and studies. Finalized in 1998, the bequest brought in treasures such as the sketch Appunti dal vero for the painting Fallimento (1902), Ritmi di un violinista (1912) and the design for Villa Borghese. Parco dei Daini, the large polyptych purchased in 1962 by Ambassador Cosmelli.
Curated by Stefania Frezzotti, this Galleria Nazionale show is the first time the works from both donations are being displayed as one, providing the opportunity for an elemental yet effective re-interpretation of Balla’s legacy using works representative of various milestones: from his pioneering phase at the turn of the century, when Balla identified the language of modernity in Divisionism and photography, through his studies of movement and velocity, decorative motifs and applied arts, to a lengthy period immersed in his own personal realism and in revisiting his earlier themes of Roman landscapes, portraits and family life.
In the complexity of this trailblazer’s long and varied career, we find a connecting thread in the value of light—its dissolution and reassembly in space and movement—as the lifeblood of the visual image. This explains the Galleria’s decision to name the exhibition after Balla’s 1943 painting Un’onda
di luce, a play on words referring to natural or artificial light and to the name of his elder daughter.share on:
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The Lasting
22/06/2016-29/01/2017