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20 14 Restlessmatter.net restlessmatter.net is an online art project by Ferruccio Ascari. Installations and sculptures from different periods of the artist’s production become the starting points of a series of video works, progressively published on this website. As in much of his work, here the artist proceeds with variations, tackling ever present questions through ever…

20 12 Corpi Celesti III It is interesting to observe how certain questions addressed by Ascari’s work resurface, perhaps after many years, almost to resume a discussion that has not been interrupted[read]but has simply flowed underground, then returning and taking on new forms. This is what happens, for example, in the cycle of works under…

20 12 Corpi Celesti IV It is interesting to observe how certain questions addressed by Ascari’s work resurface, perhaps after many years, almost to resume a discussion that has not been interrupted[read]but has simply flowed underground, then returning and taking on new forms. This is what happens, for example, in the cycle of works under…

20 12 Vibractions 2012 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…

20 12 Cinque Stanze Sensibili In Cinque stanze sensibili (Five Sensitive Rooms), we can see a return to earlier questions that are still open, available to interpretation in different forms and materials, in keeping with the characteristic methods of his operation.[read]Cinque stanze sensibill is composed of five wooden parallelepipeds, hollow with a quadrangular base, vertically…

20 12 Corpi Celesti II It is interesting to observe how certain questions addressed by Ascari’s work resurface, perhaps after many years, almost to resume a discussion that has not been interrupted[read]but has simply flowed underground, then returning and taking on new forms. This is what happens, for example, in the cycle of works under…

20 12 Casa Anatta [Not Self] In 2012, in the interiors of Casa Anatta, a unique house in Monte Verità, Switzerland, with inner walls entirely covered in wood, Ferruccio Ascari presented a new version of Vibractions, a sound installation first created in 1978.[read]Much like in the original version, harmonic strings were stretched from one side…

20 07 Apparente Apparente (Apparent), a work made with 36 panes of glass arranged on six overlaid registers. The white silhouettes that emerge in each are captured as if in flight,[read]blocked for an instant in a sort of snapshot that conveys only a partial image. As the title suggests, in its etymological sense — apparent…

20 03 Corpi Celesti I It is interesting to observe how certain questions addressed by Ascari’s work resurface, perhaps after many years, almost to resume a discussion[read]that has not been interrupted but has simply flowed underground, then returning and taking on new forms. This is what happens, for example, in the cycle of works under…

20 03 Cuori (Ex Voto) III Cuori (Ex Voto). Curcuma on paper, 50×70 cm, 2003 [DG0052] Cuori (Ex Voto). Curcuma on paper, 50×70 cm, 2003 [DG0053] Cuori (Ex Voto). Curcuma on paper, 35×50 cm, 2003 [DG0054] Cuori (Ex Voto). Curcuma on paper, 35×50 cm, 2003 [DG0055] Cuori (Ex Voto). Curcuma on paper, 50×70 cm, 2003…