GIACOMO BALLA

As a counterpoint to the exhibition ‘HOWARD WISE: EXPLORING THE NEW’, Moeller Fine Art presented Giacomo Balla’s Paravento con linea di velocità (c. 1915), a Futurist screen painting once exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, alongside his collage Linea di velocità e paesaggio (c. 1915). Completing the trio was Linee - forza del pugno di Boccioni II (1915, cast 1968), an enameled iron sculpture that translates speed and impact into form.

Balla’s vision of movement and dynamism evoked the early avant-garde’s pursuit of energy, light, and spatial transformation—ideas that would later resurface in kinetic and light art. The works were installed within a wood-panelled room, whose surfaces and proportions created a theatre-like setting that highlighted Balla’s dyanmic abstraction and sense of motion.