Franco Balleri, brilliant painter but above all builder of wooden machinery. The latter are divided between static installations, in which the figures in his paintings seem to take three-dimensional shape, and dynamic ones which, through complex mechanisms, give life to original "engines without fuel". Balleri's idea is to design engines that can be driven by minimal forces then multiplied by the action of pistons and pulleys. “I am not an engineer” states Balleri “but I would like it if in the future some mechanical technician could take inspiration from my machinery to create real engines, using suitable materials and taking into account the physical laws involved”. Speaking with the artist, what is surprising is the total absence of exhibitionism or ambition, almost the disinterest in e.
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