CORRADO FERRANTE
OFF THE WAVE
Critique by Luca temolo dall'igna
LOOKING INTO HIS EYES AND AT THE FIRST WORDS EXCHANGED I IMMEDIATELY PERCEIVED
THE SPIRIT THAT INFUSES ARTISTS WITH THE NEED TO BE CREATIVE AND THAT HAS DRIVEN HIM TO WORK CONTINUOUSLY OVER THE LONG YEARS, PURSUING A CONSISTENT PATH THAT HAS EVOLVED AND REFINED OVER TIME.
VISITING HIS STUDIO, WHICH WAS ALSO WARMLY WELCOMED BY HIS WIFE, WHO STILL LOVINGLY SUPPORTS THE MAN AND THE ARTIST TODAY, I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY HIS WORKS, SINCERE AND SUFFERED, THOUGHT OUT BUT NEVER ARTIFICIAL... IN SHORT, REAL WORKS. A STUDIO FILLED WITH WORKS, HUNG UP TO THE CEILING, IN DIFFERENT FORMATS TO CREATE AN INTOXICATING MOSAIC EFFECT. PERFECTLY BLENDED COLOURS, EVEN THOSE DROPPED ON THE EATHE SPIRIT THAT INFUSES ARTISTS WITH THE NEED TO BE CREATIVE AND THAT HAS DRIVEN HIM TO WORK CONTINUOUSLY OVER THE LONG YEARS, PURSUING A CONSISTENT PATH THAT HAS EVOLVED AND REFINED OVER TIME.
SEL, KISSED BY A BRILLIANT LIGHT COMING FROM THE LARGE WINDOW, WARM THE SOUL OF EVERY VIEWER LUCKY ENOUGH TO ENTER. I AM THEREFORE DELIGHTED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ORGANISE THIS EXHIBITION, WHICH IS SURE TO PLEASE OUR MOST DISCERNING COLLECTORS.
Luca Temolo Dall’Igna
CORRADO FERRANTE
Corrado Ferrante was very young when he chose painting as a way of escape from reality, as the main road to escape from an everyday life full of impositions. From an early age, in fact, he stands out for his rebellious temperament
proving to be decidedly disinclined to accept the rigid behavioural rules imposed by both the family upbringing and the school environment attended during childhood and adolescence. For years, his father's profession as an engineer, exercised at a managerial level, led Ferrante and his family to move from city to city, consolidating the habit of changing regions, from Marche to Abruzzo, until finally settling in Milan, where he attended the Polytechnic and graduated in Architecture, following, at least in part, in his father's footsteps. But painting, at that point, was already a revelation for the artist as, from his high school years, it represented the territory of the much longed-for, as well as now inalienable, freedom.
Sarah Lanzoni
Blu sul muro sotto un cielo di calce
72x76cm
mixed media on board - 1987
Senza titolo
46×39,5cm
mixed media on board - 1989
PARALLEL TO HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AS AN ASSISTANT
DRAFTSMAN
IN THE SHIPYARDS RUN BY HIS FATHER, HE CONTINUED TO PAINT AND IN THE EARLY DAYS
AS A SELF-TAUGHT PAINTER, IN WHICH HE MAINLY APPROACHED
IMPRESSIONISM AND
POSTIMPRESSIONISM, HE ALTERNATED COURSES IN DRAWING AND COPYING FROM LIFE, THROUGH
WHICH HE EXPERIMENTED AND CONSOLIDATED VARIOUS ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES
Sarah lanzoni
sin dall’inizio
120×92,5cm
mixed media on board - 1991/1992
Over the years, he also deepened his study of art history and, in particular, developed a passion for painters whom he himself likes to describe as 'off the beaten track' due to the 'spirit of novelty' they embodied, including avant-garde movements such as
as the FAUVES, the GERMAN EXPRESSIONISTS, AND TEXTS OF REFERENCE THAT CONTINUE TO BE CAPISALDIANS AND SOURCES OF INSPIRATION THAT ARE ALWAYS PRESENT: THE "DIARIES" OF PAUL KLEE, TO NAME BUT ONE AMONG MANY.
Sarah Lanzoni
assedio
120x85cm
mixed media on board - 2000
IN THE COMPOSITIONS, THE EYE IS ATTRACTED BY A HARMONIOUS INTERPLAY
BETWEEN FULL AND EMPTY SPACES, OBLIGING THE VIEWER TO A DYNAMIC OBSERVATION
DYNAMIC APPROACH IN ORDER TO GRASP THE WORK'S HIDDEN TEXTURES.
PAPER AND CARDBOARD SEEM, IN FACT, TO EMERGE LABORIOUSLY BETWEEN DENSE BRUSHSTROKES OF COLOUR, JUST AS PLASTER, STUCCO, SPECIAL GLUES, COAL DUST, AND IRON SHEETS PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS ARE SOME OF THE MAIN RECYCLED MATERIALS USED BY THE ARTIST, OFTEN DERIVED FROM THE WORK CONTEXTS IN WHICH HE WORKED AS AN ARCHITECT
Sarah lanzoni
L’ultima carta
68,5×48,5cm
mixed media on board - 2000
ALTERNATIONS OF SOLIDS AND VOIDS, OF FLAT AND RIPPLING SPREADS OF CHROMATIC MATTER, OF VIBRANT AND VITAL COLOURS THAT FIND A PERFECT COUNTERBALANCE IN LOWER AND SHADIER TONES, OF IRRATIONAL SHAPES THAT LET THEMSELVES BE CROSSED BY SEQUENCES
APPARENTLY REGULAR, OF GEOMETRIC MODULES CONSTITUTE THE GRAMMAR
ESSENTIAL IN CORRADO FERRANTE'S SEARCH FOR AN INTIMATE AND PERSONAL TRUTH.
sarah lanzoni
untitled
65×48,5cm
mixed media on board - 1995
untitled
82x70cm
mixed media on board - 2008
untitled
80x67cm
mixed media on board - 2020
Ferrante has always been fascinated by the idea that each of these elements carries with it its own history, whether it is an expression of a previous life or has come into contact with hands other than his own. To the worn parts of the materials, due to the irresistible action of Nature and Time, he superimposes - conceptually and concretely - the signs of the artist's human intervention, preferring the resistant, large poplar wood board as the ideal support
to sustain the energetic gestures of a material painting, as opposed to the more delicate and light canvas, used until the early 1960s, in the youthful phase of his artistic production.
untitled
27 9⁄16in x 19 11⁄16in
mixed media on paper - 2004
untitled
27 9⁄16in x 19 11⁄16in
mixed media on paper - 2005
Senza titolo
27 9⁄16in x 19 11⁄16in
mixed media on paper - 2007
FERRANTE IS ATTRACTED BY UNDEFINED ELEMENTS, CONNECTED TO PERSONAL MEMORY, WHICH HE INCLUDES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS UNDER THE NAME OF 'CORKS'. COMING FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS, FROM THAT INNER, SUBMERGED AND PRIVATE WORLD OF EACH INDIVIDUAL, IN TIME THEY ARE DESTINED TO RISE TO THE SURFACE, TO COME TO THE SURFACE. THE ARTIST REFERS TO THE SO-CALLED CORKS, IN PARTICULAR, WHEN HE USES SOME OF THE MATERIALS THAT FASCINATE HIM MOST, SUCH AS SHEETS AND RECYCLED FABRICS, WHICH HE FIRST CUTS AND THEN SEWS UP, GIVING THEM NEW LIFE AND MEANING THROUGH THE WORK. THEY TURN OUT TO BE CONNECTED TO THE MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER, AN EXPERT SELF-TAUGHT SEAMSTRESS, ABLE TO SEW AND MAKE CLOTHES FOR HIM AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY.
la madre terra
107x90cm mixed media on board - 2018
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