Biography: BIOGRAPHY
Born in Vicenza , he has ever lived in Milan,
now resides in Torri del Benaco VR (on the Garda lake).
Left the classical studies, he attended the Brera Accademy.
After an interesting experience as designer, he founds
with others a creative Boutique that is an example
of advanced communication and creativity. He works
as art director and creative in national and international
advertising companies for many years and a professorship
at the European Institute of Design was offered to him.
He created and realised outstanding TV and stampa advertising
campains. A diversified cultural curiosity, the interest
and the artistical attitude drive him to the painting.
His firts personal exposition ('85), in palazzo Borromeo
at the "Le Arcate" art gallery, via Manzoni, Milan, was
accredited by a large interest of the public and
of the critics. After some exhibititons and a certain
number of collective expositions, the painter reaches
an higher artistical level, due to an intense work program,
not conditoned by the variuos influences of the art market.
His work has been accredited by the great estimates and by the
consensus expressed by the art operators at European level.
His paintings are part of art collections of refined art estimators.
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some text extracted from the critique
contained in the catalogue "DIARIO FIGURATO" '96 OF
PROF. GIAN ALBERTO DELL'ACQUA,
ONE OF MOST AUTHORITATIVE CRITICS OF THE ITALIAN ART HISTORY.
Gian alberto Dell'Acqua
already ancient and modern history teacher at the cattolica university of Milan, already superintendent at the lombardy galleries since 1973, reviser of the lombardy museums trustee of numerous ancient and contemporary art exhibitions in public sites ( palazzo reale
Milano ),trustee and general segretary of the biennale di Venezia
...... Nevertheless Ferrari should soon realise that to give to his work a more solid structural implant he had to follow Cezanne's and proto-cubists Braque's and Picasso's lesson, with a participating interest, extended afterward to other protagonists of the European twentieth century: Matisse,Leger, Sironi, Chagall, the surrealists.
....Among the titles of the ones since now considered, the not few allusions to mythology and classical literature are impressive (Penelope, Ettore e Andromaca, Pandora), they are to be meant in relation, in Jung's sense, to archetypes lying in the unconscious as deposit of ancestral experiences; actually Ferrari loves to recall in this way the civility beginning felt like a golden period, of an exemplar value.
.....While the traces of the cubist experience are disappearing, human monumental figures prevail in the paintings, mostly feminine and often associated to still-life motifs, on the probable Sironi's and Leger's example. Emerges in this way a new figure representation, feed even by primitive and archaic inspiration("Harem","Giullareallospecchio", "Giullare ignudo", "le antiche nutrici", "Dialogo" ) that in the colour outburst
assumes a tone of excited irrationality, in a surrealist direction.
The recourse to towering and moving shapes accentuates itself during ("Il rosso ballerino", "Sabba verde", "Eva scolpita") in a way that even if on one side they seem to recall the neo-classic Picasso in the appearance, although in reality they are rooting in an ancient memory of the Mediterranean world.
………The application of the colour, strongly marked in the reds and in the blue or maintained on a more clear gamut and that from time to time assumes the transparency or on the contrary is consolidated in meditated overlaps, conforms as much to
the unnatural liberty , such as to recall sometimes to the mind the
convulsive metamorphosis of the surrealist Masson.
The Tension does not slacken in the last paintings.
In continuity with the previous, they constitute a sort drawing diary,effect of a tumultuous, overflowing imagination and characterised by a rare richness and variety of motifs, which reflect the numerous interests of Ferrari, man and artist under various aspects upstream.
.... Attempting to interpret them, the courage and the tenacity of Pier Luigi Ferrari in putting himself under discussion, betting on his painting in the highest sense of the word, should be emphasised as certain sign of authenticity.
His painting, born from a free comparison with some great artists of the modern times, has searched and found, out of the actual trends and trade influences, an own important creative space.
Country: Italy
E-mail: ferrarigigi@hotmail.com
Site: http://www.pierluigiferrari.sitoweb.net