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20 18 Mantra Ferruccio Ascari here returns to using the technique of fresco transferred to canvas, typical of his painted works. But there is an element of innovation: the element of writing, previously used episodically in the fabric of his works, becomes the key element of this work, which is also a text.[read]The range of…

20 09 Respiro The sculptures and installations of this period are joined by works on paper, often large in size: while focusing on questions that cross the entire artist’s oeuvre,[read]certain of these works offer us a chance for perhaps a closer approach to his personal sphere, almost to his physical being. We might talk about…

20 11 Compianto [Video] In this video, as the title indicates, Ferruccio Ascari goes back to a subject that belongs to the tradition of Christian sacred art, namely the Lamentation of Christ,[read]a theme that begins in the 1300s with Giotto in the frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and then becomes popular in Italian…

20 11 Sapiens SAPIENS is a ‘lighting body’ made in iron rod. The silhouette and dimensions are those of a tall adult man,[read]over six feet tall. Its tail is an electric cord and its head is a light bulb. SAPIENS is a hybrid object, both a sculpture and a lamp, and exists at the border…

20 07 Pittura per Ciechi In the works on paper from this period, with a dizzying shift of perspective, the artist’s gaze is directed into a compositional plot that tends to erase distance,[read]in a near mingling, as if to fully know its innermost structure. But this is not just a case of “learning to see”…

20 08 Fiori “There are no givens, only events and movements… Reality is not composed of things that essentially are and accidentally become[read]- the artist says, speaking of these works – but of processes, i. e. of an essential becoming… Things are not in time, they are time.” A becoming that unfolds before our very…

20 08 Insiemi Instabili Insiemi Instabili, like Odradek, Fiori and Vayu, belongs to a group of works in witch the multiplicity of parts “lacking a clear, recognizable order[read]- as the artist says – seems to respondd to a pure need for growth; almost as if they were following their own secret impulses, expanding in the…

20 08 Latte Nero Latte nero is an environmental installation composed of 83 parts in white terracotta that remind us of the form of the female breast,[read]though they are hollow and reveal a dark chasm. Similar but of different size, the individual parts are arranged along the wall, apparently without any order. The work’s title…

20 08 Odradek Odradek is composed of many parts: small ones, in red terracotta, that remind us of something that we cannot say, perhaps a top, something that seems to have lost its function.[read]The title, not coincidentally, refers to a famous short story by Kafka that has to do with a forgotten object said to…

20 08 Vayu Vayu, like Odradek, Fiori and Insiemi Instabili, belongs to a group of works in witch the multiplicity of parts “lacking a clear, recognizable order[read]- as the artist says – seems to respondd to a pure need for growth; almost as if they were following their own secret impulses, expanding in the direction…