Bologna, Palazzo Pallavicini dedicates an exhibition to Roberto Ferri

In Bologna, Palazzo Pallavicini dedicates an exhibition to artist Roberto Ferri (Taranto, 1978). The Apulian painter’s Neo-Baroque art is featured in the Bologna venue from October 20, 2022 to March 12, 2023, with works that recall the art of Caravaggio and his followers. The exhibition, sponsored by the Emilia-Romagna Region, is curated by Francesca Bogliolo and produced and organized by Pallavicini Srl of Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci with the contribution of Liquid art system of Franco Senesi. Sixty works (forty oils on canvas and twenty drawings) representative of the visual poetics of artist Roberto Ferri find space in the palace.

The exhibition composes an anthological path between the sacred and the profane to highlight the meticulous work of the Taranto artist, who from his beginnings has been trying to stop the inexorable progress of time through the act of painting. Ferri, recalling Baroque art, intends to marry extreme realism with pure symbolism, aiming to generate enchantment for the soul and the eye. Allegories of human drives and sacred transpositions of the tensions of the spirit appear among the paintings on display. On display in Bologna are works such as Le delizie infrante, an elaborate staging of an inner conflict, or L’ amore la morte e il sogno personified investigation of the extremes that hold the threads of life together. The artist’s relationship with graphics is represented by the drawings on display.

Roberto Ferri was born in 1978 in Taranto. He graduated from Liceo artistico “Lisippo” in 1996 and began to study painting as a self-taught artist. In 1999, he moved to Rome and devoted particular attention to painting from the early 16th century to the late 19th century; in particular, he focused on Caravaggio and academic painting(David, Ingres, Girodet, Géricault, Gleyre, Bouguereau, etc.). In 2006, he graduated with honors in Scenography from theAcademy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale.Over the years, he has exhibited at important public and private institutions in Italy and abroad, such as theInstitute of Italian Culture in London, Complesso del Vittoriano and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Palazzo dei Priori in Viterbo, and Palazzo del Podestà in Rimini. His works are found within important collections around the world, in Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, in San Antonio (Texas), Qatar, Dublin, Boston, Malta, Mexico, Canada, and at the Picasso and Dora Maar Castle in Menerbes, Provence.

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Bologna, Palazzo Pallavicini dedicates an exhibition to Roberto Ferri

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