Rome, Casa Balla reopens by popular demand from April 6

Starting Thursday, April 6, 2023, by popular demand, the Futurist House of Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) in Rome will reopen to the public after several months of a stop to visits. This is the house where the great Futurist artist Giacomo Balla lived and worked with his wife Elisa and daughters Luce and Elica from 1929 until his death. The announcement of the reopening was made today after a private visit to the House by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, accompanied by MAXXI President Alessandro Giuli. The visit was also attended by Daniela Porro, special superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Rome; Giovanna Gubbini, MiC regional secretary for Umbria and acting archival superintendent for Lazio; and MAXXI’s founding partners, the Lazio Region and Enel, represented by Simona Baldassarre, Lazio Region’s councillor for culture, and Nicola Lanzetta, Enel’s Italy director.

Casa Balla opened in June 2021 for the first time in 30 years, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the master’s birth, thanks to MAXXI’s inter-institutional collaboration with Rome’s Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio and the contribution of Banca d’Italia. Visible until Dec. 31, 2022, it has always sold out. This new opening, says MAXXI, which manages the site, is a first response to the many requests that have come to the museum from scholars, academics, art historians and the public from around the world. Casa Balla will be open Thursday through Sunday, from April 6 to July 15, 2023, with admission staggered by time slots (tickets can be purchased at casaballa.maxxi.art or at the museum’s ticket office: full price is 18 euros, reduced price is 15 euros for groups of 12 people on the same shift, myMAXXI membership card holders and journalists, reduced price is 12 euros for children under 14, free for disabled and any accompanying persons). Visits will be held Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and are reserved for groups of up to 12 people. Also planned in the tour itinerary is an in-depth video time. Due to high demand, reservations are strongly recommended.

“The precious testimony of this artist’s house, which is integrally preserved,” said Minister Sangiuliano, “has the merit of making the creative power of one of the protagonists of the main Italian avant-garde of the 20th century understood to the core. The Ministry of Culture will therefore acquire together with MAXXI Casa Balla to the state heritage, making it a property permanently open to the public.”

At Casa Balla, art invests everything: the fascination of this dwelling derives largely from the fact that objects created for everyday use, such as tables, chairs, shelves, easels, ashtrays, plates, and tiles, coexist with paintings, drawings and sculptures, creating a single, kaleidoscopic total project, in line with the manifesto on the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe signed by Balla and Fortunato Depero in 1915. The house, located on Oslavia Street, was for the Balla family a laboratory of experimentation, a creative workshop, a kind of ancient Renaissance workshop, thus becoming a total work of art. “Its opening to the public,” the ministry says in a note, “adds a fundamental piece in the culture and history of Italian and world art, as well as being a source of inspiration and a reference point for the younger generations of artists.”

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Rome, Casa Balla reopens by popular demand from April 6

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