Casa Balla officially becomes part of the state heritage. The Ministry of Culture in fact signed this morning the deed of acquisition of Giacomo Balla’s famous home-studio, located at 39B Via Oslavia in Rome, where the master of Futurism lived and worked from 1929 until his death in 1958. The signing of the deed took place in the presence of Director General Museums Massimo Osanna, notary Clarissa Fonda and Head of the Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Luigi La Rocca.
The acquisition was conducted by the Ministry of Culture, through the General Directorate for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, with the fundamental contribution of the Special Superintendence of Rome, as part of the 2022-2024 and 2023-2025 Three-Year Investment Plan.
The total value of the deal, which also includes royalties, amounts to 6.9 million euros: 6 million earmarked for artworks and furniture and 900 thousand euros for the purchase of the property.
With the entry of Casa Balla into the state heritage, the National Museum System is enriched with a unique place: a laboratory of futurist creativity, where every wall, furniture and color tells of the artistic and experimental vision of Giacomo Balla and his daughters, Luce and Elica, also protagonists of the movement and interpreters of modernity.
“It is a special day. We are all very happy because after a long preliminary and procedural phase today the Director General of the Museums signed the deed of purchase of the house in which Giacomo Balla lived until ’58 and which has been acquired by the Ministry of Culture together with its furnishings and the works created by the artist that had remained in the house, which will therefore become a new national museum, a house-museum dedicated to this great exponent of Futurism, a pictorial current to which, along with all the art of the twentieth century, the Ministry is paying great attention,” said Department Head for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Luigi La Rocca.
“This is an important day: Casa Balla becomes a national museum. A unique dwelling, in which every object and every color tells the creative energy of Giacomo Balla, becomes part of the state heritage. The task ahead of us is to make it fully accessible, accompanying all audiences in the discovery of a fundamental chapter of twentieth-century art: Futurism and its legacy,” said Museums General Director Massimo Osanna.
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