The Ministry of Culture has signed three purchase agreements, totaling over 2.6 million euros, which will enrich the collection of Casa Balla—acquired by the state in 2025—and establish the core collection of state-owned works for the Mario Sironi Museum – Sironi Studies Center. The acquisitions include furnishings and artworks for the redesign of the Futurist artist’s Roman home, as well as thirty works by Mario Sironi that document the various phases of his career. The initiative is funded through the independent budget of the Pantheon and Castel Sant’Angelo – National Museums Directorate of the City of Rome, which is already responsible for managing Casa Balla and will also manage the future Mario Sironi Museum.
The first two acquisitions concern Casa Balla, the residence on Via Oslavia in Rome where Giacomo Balla transformed the domestic spaces into an extension of his artistic exploration. The furnishings and artworks acquired will make it possible to reconstruct certain rooms based on historical documentation. The first acquisition comprises 45 works and furnishings, including the eleven items belonging to the so-called Yellow and Green Room and three works on paper by Giacomo Balla. This collection also provides insight into the history of the house following the artist’s death in 1958, documenting the subsequent transformations and events in the rooms. The second collection, meanwhile, consists of the furnishings of the Red Study. Their reinstatement will help restore the spatial organization conceived by Balla, in which furniture, decorations, and objects were not merely functional elements but an integral part of his artistic vision.
These acquisitions are part of the preparations for the upcoming reopening of the house with a new layout, designed to highlight the unified nature of the artist’s creative experience. In addition to these acquisitions, there is a folding screen created by Balla—which was also originally located in the house—whose purchase was finalized in recent weeks by the General Directorate of Museums.
The third acquisition involves thirty works by Mario Sironi purchased fromthe Mario Sironi Archive in Rome. These include paintings, works on paper, studies, drawings, and sketches spanning different periods of the artist’s career, from Futurism to Metaphysical Art, from the monumental phase of the 1930s to his later work. This collection will form the core of the state-owned works at the Mario Sironi Museum – Sironian Studies Center, which is set to become a leading center for the study and appreciation of the artist. These will be complemented by over ninety works loaned free of charge by the Mario Sironi Archive in Rome, thereby expanding the possibilities for research and the promotion of the collection.
The signing of the three deeds marks a crucial stage in the acquisition process. The deeds will now be forwarded to the relevant regulatory bodies to fulfill the required formalities prior to finalizing the acquisitions and the delivery of the works.
This initiative is part of the Ministry of Culture’s broader acquisitions policy.
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