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A MEMORY DELL'ADRANITA GUIDO DANCE Massimiliano Scalisi

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Drane, in 1914, gave birth to one of the most important art critics in the history of Italy.

Guido Ballo, an outstanding teacher for eight decades of the Academy of Brera, was critical of the consecration to the general public by Lucio Fontana, the artist famous for puncturing his canvases; Ball lived the bulk of his life in Milan when he moved in 1939, was a poet of great sensibility (his works are collected in a volume of Vanni Scheiwiller and Arnaldo Pomodoro: The wall has a sound ), artist and friend of artists, writers and scholars as well as deep paint committed himself, among others, Baj, Tadini, Pozzati Aricò and has collaborated with the cultural pages of ' Next! and Corriere della Sera addition to having edited many exhibitions. In 1956, Ball published by the Italian Futurist painters today in '60 Prehistory of futurism, an interesting journey through the beginnings of the vanguard Marinetti, the 1959 was a pivotal year as it released the first issue of in Azimuth Ball which is taking its first serious steps by art critic. In 1961 he founded a group called "Continuity " that the brothers were part tomato, and three years later, see the light Line Italian art, symbolism works and multiplied Boccioni.

Dance estimated immeasurably Fontana, enough to get to call him a magician: he loved his style and outrageous people. Those holes and those cuts, according to Ball, was attractive, were discussed; Ball was convinced that the irrational and the informal art are always present, there is no need because most of their bloom.

Brera Academy, students, and even former students, now older, remind critical eye, must of the history of abstract art.

The year 1970 is the topic: Fountain devotes a monograph devoted to him.

Who swears he knew the personality of Guido Ballo was a continuous blend of irrational impulses, the sons of his Sicilian roots, and efficiency throughout northern passed away at 96 years: it is right that remembering and Adrano boast of his style, his level of fame and prestige.

(Published in the October 2010 magazine Symmachia)