I observe and experience the cosmos intimately in search sometimes of a hinge that opens a passage, of a code source that reveals the meaning of the existence of everything; However, I am often overwhelmed by feeling and I realize the road doing what is the direction taken and what is the because of that choice. I constantly wonder if there is a bond that unites everything and through matter I try to prove it, first of all to feel it.
The first works that gave me a strong emotion and a sense of ecstasy were Mondrian's paintings "Triptych evolution" and "the red mill" both from 1911, then Alberto Burri, later Ernesto Neto, up to Jan Fabre and Urs Fisher.
Define yourself as a human being using three adjectives.
According to your vision where is it going and where would you like it
went, contemporary art?
Federico Ferrarini, 1976, lives and works in Verona
He begins his career in the early 2000s, after attending the Belle Academies
Arts of Bologna and Venice.
The first independent and experimental projects abroad take place in China, in Shenzen and Chang-sa,
then in Seattle at the Lenny Wilkens Foundation and in Miami between 2012 and 2014.
In 2012 he painted Blast, a canvas representing a Sun Stargate, which runs along its path
passing from the Stellatelli Collection in the catalog Delle Dissonanze - This is not Propaganda e
arriving in South America to Arturo Calle, the famous Colombian tycoon.
In 2015 he exhibited at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
He collaborates with Fresco Art Magazine, Julia Riley O'Sullivan's industry magazine.
To remember the group exhibitions in the Wynwood district, in 2015.
He also exhibits in Newport in July 2016 on Franklin Street.
At Palazzo Garzoni Moro in Venice in July 2017 he transforms one of the rooms into a studio and
within a month he creates Sole 066, a large canvas that entitles the project and the solo exhibition
overlooking the Grand Canal.
In 2018 he is at the M.A.C.R.O. From Rome where he experiments with painting augmented with the project
Exquisitus Speculum, directed by Ginevra Gadioli during the Fotonica Festival;
He collaborates with the digital artists Electromoon Vision and begins a solid collaboration with the Sound
Designer Paolo Piaser.
In 2018 the Wormhole Vesseldata project comes to light, two large site-specific works inserted in
Palazzo Camozzini, in Verona.
The Vesseldata sculpture is a work conceived as an environmental extroversion of its archetype
pictorial - the Stargate Sun - and exemplification of the Einsteinian Wormhole.
In 2019, inspired by the "photo of the century" of the M87 black hole, Kroll was born, a site specific installation by
wooden monoliths covered with minerals and graphite suspended around a black hole.
He presents a first prototype of 9 cubic meters in a tobacco dryer in the Verona area,
collaborating with the architect Nico Sandri who takes care of the museography of the project and with Paolo Piaser
which creates an interactive electro-acoustic composition as a breath of the universe. Kroll is
currently in evolution, study and experimentation are still going on.
Between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 the relationship with the gallery owner Riccardo Steccanella is consolidated
of the Kromya Art Gallery in Verona and Lugano begins a cycle of exhibitions which culminates with the solo show
in Verona, in the same gallery where he presents his new research in the field of sculpture. There
personal Stonestar, this is the title that aims to highlight the ancestral link between the stone and the
stars as raw material of the cosmos, curated by Chiara Canali and inaugurated at the end of 2022.
The end of 2021 is marked by another important brick in the construction of a happy one
collaboration with Veronafiere and Fiera Cavalli.
First with the Zarathustra Project, curated by the museologist Beatrice Marciani, which continues a
dialogue and a comparison with the world of horses that began in 2011 with the commission received from
Ministry of Economic Development and publicly delivered to the Minister of the United Arab Emirates
United Sultan Bin Al Mansoori on the occasion of the official visit of the Emirate delegation.
Then In 2022 this study reaches its climax with the work Scall, commissioned by
Veronafiere and commissioned by Ferrarini as a tribute to Futurism and to Umberto Boccioni, linked to
city of Verona.
January 2023 receives an invitation from Centrorochas, a Brazilian national entity focused on
international dissemination of Brazilian natural stone.
He travels to Brazil as a guest at the Vitoria Stone Fair 2023 in the city of the same name to learn more
in depth the raw materials of this country which boasts the largest geodiversity al
world and begins to experiment with painting through the use of minerals.
“For years and increasingly I have been thinking that the artist should focus on what not even the
science has still been able to explain, roll its eyes or research into the infinitely small.” Say Federico ferrarini.
