ROBERTO
FERRI "NOLI FORAS IRE"
and
the Presentation of the Way of the Cross for the Cathedral of Noto
Rome,
Palace of the Exhibitions – Sala Fontana (Fountain Hall)
7
May – 2 June 2013
From
7 May until
2 June the Fountain Hall of the Palace of the Exhibitions in Rome
will host the exhibition ROBERTO
FERRI "NOLI FORAS IRE" and the Presentation of the Way of
the Cross for the Cathedral of Noto organised
by
Franco Senesi Fine Art, Simona Gatto and Francesca Sacchi Tommasi,
with the artistic supervision of Vittorio Sgarbi, art critic, Claudio
Strinati, Executive of the Ministry for Heritage and Cultural
Activities Executive and Francesco Buranelli, Secretary of the
Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church.
It
will be possible to admire thirty-six works by Roberto Ferri a
figurative, Caravaggesque - inspired contemporary artist, twenty-four
paintings on canvas, as well as twelve drawings and preparatory
sketches executed with several techniques. Among them there are some
paintings whose profane subject is an elevated expression of the
artist’s poetics and style, where the extreme realism of the human
figures and the heroism of poses and expressions witness the recovery
of classical models and the artist’s excellent knowledge of
anatomy. Harmonious works in forms and composition, characterised by
a sense of oneirism and by numerous references to antiquity, whose
purpose is to generate awe and wonder in the spectator. In addition
to this, the paintings depicting the fourteen stations of the Way of
the Cross commissioned to Ferri in 2010 for the Cathedral of Noto -
wonderful example of Sicilian Baroque art and architecture - will be
presented. Some of these paintings were exhibited back in 2011 at
Grimani Palace in Venice during the International Art Biennale, event
from which Roberto Ferri - together with critic and journalist Fabio
Isman - got the idea of exhibiting a preview of all the paintings in
a prestigious venue in Rome, the Palace of the Exhibitions, before
their definitive placement in the Cathedral.
A
unique exhibition where sacred and profane
coexist and where the desire to merge good and evil emerges clearly -
a characteristic of Roberto Ferri’s works - like in the oil on
canvas Lucifer,
where
the angel fallen from heaven - depicted while imprinting his seal on
a stone and on the Earth he will govern - expresses his beauty to
the fullest. Among the other paintings there is Requiem
to
be
noticed,
a massive work commissioned in 2012 by TIA. Ferri reinterprets the
theme of requiem, representing an angel greeted by demonic figures in
order to make the end of his benign side and the rebirth of the
malignant one emerge and where evil is symbolised by the beetle
penetrating the skin of his hand. In In
death entwined
dated 2011, the artist merges his thought with that of his partner,
expressed in the incision on the tomb placed behind the two lovers in
the foreground
“here
I deposit my tears, part of me, intimate fruit that becomes mirror.”
The
exhibition catalogue is published by Giunti publishing
Roberto
Ferri,
artist from the city of Taranto, known in Italy and abroad for his
paintings concerning sacred and profane themes, is inspired by
Baroque painting - Caravaggio in particular - by some masters of
Romanticism, Academicism, Symbolism including Ingres, David,
Gericault but also by Surrealist painters. He graduated with honours
(cum laude) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2011,
participated in the 54th Edition of the Venice Biennale, Italy
Pavilion, with his painting “Redemption” and in 2012 he took part
in the collective exhibition organised within the Fabbri Award for
the Arts, “A century and 7”, held at the National Library in
Bologna and at the Alinari Museum in Florence.
His
works have been exhibited at the Italian Cultural Institute in
London, at the Vittoriano Complex in Rome, at Palazzo Vecchio in
Florence, at Palazzo dei Priori in Viterbo, at Sismondo Castle and
Palazzo del Podestà in Rimini and in other private collections in
Paris, Menerbes in the residency of Picasso and Dora Maar, New York,
Barcelona, Miami, Madrid, Milan, Boston, Dublin, Texas and New
Mexico.
Vittorio
Sgarbi describes him as:” A phenomenon, admirable like an ancient
painter and even more. Here we find ourselves, facing ancient
paintings surprisingly modern, apparently academic yet transgressive.
Thus, he determines a Borges- like effect: he asks and obtains
astonishment, and paints, today, ancient paintings: when we face his
works we are not able to tell in which epoch we are”.
ROBERTO
FERRI "NOLI FORAS IRE"
and
the Presentation of the Way of the Cross for the Cathedral of Noto
Palace
of the Exhibitions
– Sala Fontana (Fountain Hall)
194,
Nazionale Street - Rome
7
May – 2 June 2013
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday
10.00 – 20.00 – Friday and Saturday from 10.00 until 22.30.
Monday closed
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