Simultaneità organica

A typical work of the “Second Futurism” inspired by Prampolini, this painting seems to contrast the “simultaneity” of times and spaces with another, “organic simultaneity”: the symbiosis of the forms of man with those of nature and the cosmos. The blue base on which the figure rests clearly alludes to the sea, while the profiles flanking the man recall rock and mountain. Above, floating spheres presumably allude to planets and the firmament. The whole is bound together by large, embracing white marks, which very likely allude to a synthesis of the universe, at the centre of which is man, the protagonist.
An intelligent optical effect is produced by the brown background against which the sky and the plastic forms stand out starkly. The triangle in the man’s chest very probably symbolizes the dynamism that Balla and other Futurists, as well as Kandinsky, expresses precisely through triangular forms.