AGOSTINO FERRARI
E IL GRUPPO DEL CENOBIO
AGOSTINO FERRARI, UGO LA PIETRA,
ETTORE SORDINI, ANGELO VERGA,
ARTURO VERMI
curated by Marcello Palminteri
30 MAY - 30 JUNE
12 SEPTEMBER - 12 OCTOBER 2023
On display are about twenty works tracing Agostino Ferrari's creative path, created between the early 1960s and the year 2000. Starting from the experiences he shared with the ‘Gruppo del Cenobio’, founded in 1962 together with Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sordini, Angelo Verga and Arturo Vermi (some of whose significant works of the period are exhibited), the exhibition allows us to identify the pictorial coherence of one of the leading exponents of twentieth-century sign abstraction.
Agostino Ferrari bent the sign into an expressive tool to narrate himself and the developments of painting, crossing avant-gardes and ‘isms’ in the wake of a pictorial vocation that led him towards a reduction in which trace, structure and colour converge in a stylistic figure of rigorous method, yet very free, making evident the extraordinary intensity that transforms every constructive element into a communication tool. Thus sign becomes writing capable of narrating man, indicating the passing of time, making history but each time in direct contact, in the conscious physicality of painting, with emotion charged by memory.
