In the splendid setting of the gardens of Villa Panizza in Paese (TV) from April 14, 2018, some works of the artist Carlo Balljana are exhibited, the master Gentile Polo has been discovered.
Coming down to country (TV) Saturday 21 for the opening of the Altered Book exhibition inaugurated by the President of the Nabila Fluxus Gallery Virginia Milici, the artist Gentile Polo was able to admire in the elegant English gardens of Villa Panizza the powerful works of the sculptor Carlo Balljana.
Carlo Balljana (Farra di Soligo, 29 August 1944), a graduate in engineering and architecture in Friborg (Switzerland), has exhibited in collective and personal exhibitions all over the world since 1963 and focuses mainly on the construction of monuments and major works.
Among the great works exhibited at Villa Panizza that of Pope Karol Wojtyla (“The wind of hope”), one of the works for which he was nicknamed “the sculptor of the Popes”, and then the Old Postman (or “Under the wind of the house in casa “) by bike with hat and cloak in the wind, the man with a basket full of grapes (” It’s time to harvest – Hymn to Prosecco 2006 “) that offers a bunch but without the statue of the child, perhaps for this reason look at the teacher Gentile Polo observed that the eyes of the elderly seem lost in the void …
Among the works of Carlo Balljana instead of the following period, dedicated to the wind of the fourth dimension for which the sculptor acquires the title of “fire artist”, I could admire the head of a horse and the flaming woman, and the favorite of my teacher Gentile Polo: the rooster that, facing back, holds a kite as if to remember with the rooster the France and the fight to keep the kite, a symbol of freedom, in the drawn wire while a hot air fire tries to tear it out.
For the master Gentile Polo, with the works of the “wind of the fourth dimension” the sculptor Balljana has reached an extraordinary expressive force, an emotional and dynamic research between forms and powerful flames, initiated with Umberto Boccioni’s Futuristic Man (Bronze, 1913 ) and culminated in the flamboyant and transfiguring lightness of Carlo Balljana.
The exhibition will remain freely accessible in the beautiful gardens of the Town Library in Paese in Villa Panizza until 27 May 2018.
(Lucia Martorelli – Gentile Polo Art Studio)
