AGOSTINO FERRARI
SUL GRUPPO DEL CENOBIO ED ALTRE AVVENTURE
curated by Marcello Palminteri
JUS Museum | Palazzo Donn'Anna
Fondazione Ezio De Felice
6 OCTOBER 2023
JUS Museum | Palazzo Calabritto
7 OCTOBER 2023
The meeting, organised by the JUS Museum (where the exhibition ‘Agostino Ferrari and the Gruppo del Cenobio’, until 21 October, is currently underway) allows a dialogue with one of the protagonists of twentieth-century painting. Next to the artistic parabola of Carla Accardi, who dedicated about sixty years of research to the sign (the first abstract works oriented to her particular ‘writing’ date back to 1953-54), Agostino Ferrari's is certainly the longest-lived creative analysis carried out on painting and form through a sign itinerary (started at the end of the 1950s) traced with incredible coherence and capacity for renewal.
The meeting is introduced by Arch. Roberto Fedele of the C.T.S. of the Ezio De Felice Foundation and Avv. Olindo Preziosi and continues with an open conversation between the audience, Marcello Palminteri and Agostino Ferrari, who witnessed the creative climate of Milan in the 1950s and 1960s, around Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. A climate in which the Gruppo del Cenobio (1962), founded by Agostino Ferrari together with Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sordini, Angelo Verga and Arturo Vermi, was born. It was a brief but intense experience and historically the only group that developed the so-called ‘sign current’.
The catalogue ‘Agostino Ferrari e Il Gruppo del Cenobio’ edited by Marcello Palminteri, with an interview by Giancarlo Politi, is also presented.
In the JUS Museum | Palazzo Donn'Anna exhibition space, the work ‘Frammenti’, an acrylic and sand on canvas from 1997, is exhibited.
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On Saturday 7 October instead, at the exhibition space of the JUS Museum | Palazzo Calabritto (Via Calabritto, 20), as part of the XIX Giornata del Contemporaneo, the exhibition ‘Agostino Ferrari e il Gruppo del Cenobio’ can be visited from 4 to 9.30 p.m., when the artist will be present.
