Dino Ferrari - Untitled

This type of subject can be classified within the metaphysical aesthetic. The artistic movement founded by Giorgio de Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. However, it creates an effect of alienation through the process of displacement, that is, the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context, or through condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical art is also distinguished by the ostentatiously illusory nature of its images.

In executing this drawing, Dino Ferrari searches for the subject in an archive of images, just as De Chirico did in his metaphysical works. What emerges is the memory of ancient statuary from Mediterranean civilizations. In terms of execution, one can see Ferrari working on several fronts. On the one hand, he tends to exalt the plastic qualities, especially in the head, delineated volumetrically with light shading. Lower down, the figure tends to dematerialize and become abstract even in form. The space around the figure is delineated with heavy black hatching.

Dino Ferrari was a painter from Ascoli Piceno, born in 1914 and died in 2000. He trained in Rome, where he moved in 1935 and studied the Neo-Impressionists and the Novecento group. After the war, he returned to Ascoli Piceno, where he opened his own studio, receiving numerous commissions, especially as a portraitist. In 1958, he held a major solo exhibition in Florence, which was highly successful, and his painting "Assault on the City" was purchased by the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, where it remains today.

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