{"id":100362,"date":"2012-01-24T22:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/artista\/giacomo-balla\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:18:39","slug":"giacomo-balla","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/artista\/giacomo-balla\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacomo Balla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, 1917, <em>Feu d\u2019artifice <\/em>(Fireworks), a performance conceived by Giacomo Balla during the years he participated in the Futurist movement, was produced at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Set to music by Igor Stravinsky and directed by Sergej Djagilev, Balla\u2019s work presented for a few minutes, in place of live actors, a set composed of solid geometric wood forms that were covered with fabric and colored paper.\u00a0 Inside these pyramid and prism forms, Balla had placed electric lights, which operated rhythmically, creating unexpected effects of movement. Violet and white colors appeared on the left part of the set; red, blue, and yellow in the center; and green on the right. The artist explained that the elements represented \u201cthe moods of fireworks\u201d that Stravinsky\u2019s music had suggested to him. This theater of alogical architectural forms, animated by continuous plays of light, exemplified the aim, formulated in 1915 by Balla and Fortunato Depero, in the manifesto <em>Ricostruzione futurista dell\u2019universo <\/em>(Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe), to free art to participate in life, to arouse the playful instinct of humans.<\/p>\n<p>The performance lasted only three minutes, in keeping with the principles of a theater born of intuition and capable of condensing multiple situations and ideas into a few moments, as proclaimed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the theoretician of the Futurist movement, in the manifesto <em>Il Teatro Futurista Sintetico <\/em>(Futurist Synthetic Theater), 1915. According to Marinetti, Futurist theater, in fact, was to be \u201cA-technical, Dynamic, Simultaneous\u201d and \u201cAutonomous, Alogical, Unreal.\u201d<br \/>\nThe elements that make up the set for <em>Feu d\u2019artifice<\/em> were reconstructed at the Castello di Rivoli on the occasion of the exhibition <em>Sipario\/Staged Art<\/em>, 1997, which addressed the close relationship between theater and the visual arts. These elements were based on more than twenty sketches of designs for the set held by the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan. Balla also created a self-portrait, now lost, in which some of the forms from <em>Feu d\u2019artifice<\/em> appear against the background.<\/p>\n<p>[MB]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, 1917, Feu d\u2019artifice (Fireworks), a performance conceived by Giacomo Balla during the years he participated in the Futurist movement, was produced at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. 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