Ricerche analitiche nel nuovo scenario milanese dei primi anni settanta del Novecento: Agostino Ferrari

Name: Ricerche analitiche nel nuovo scenario milanese dei primi anni settanta del Novecento: Agostino Ferrari
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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ARTE LOMBARDA

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ARTE LOMBARDA - 2024 - 3

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Ricerche analitiche nel nuovo scenario milanese dei primi anni settanta del Novecento: Agostino Ferrari

Analytical research in the new scenario of the early 1970s in Milan: Agostino Ferrari

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Mariacristina Maccarinelli

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Vita e Pensiero

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03-2025

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10.26350/666112_000160

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0004-3443 (stampa) | 2785-1117 (digitale)

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The year 1970 marks the beginning of Agostino Ferrari’s research on color and its emotional implications. Each phase of his work is paralleled with a series of writings, both an inherent part of the artistic process and a precious testimony of the theoretical path that brought to the creation of the 1975 large-scale installation Self-portrait, the culmination and recapitulation of a five-year-long inquiry. Ferrari thoroughly analyzes the issues regarding the theory of colors, focusing on the relationship between shape and color, and between these formal elements and sign. His work on the optical-visual perception of color, its relationship with shapes and its psychological-emotional value is inevitably based on a series of previous experiences, particularly those of abstract artists throughout the 20th century. Still, Ferrari’s individual contribution to the discourse on such matters is his definition of color as a “vitamin” able to fulfill a temporary need brought forward by a given state of mind. though aware and rigorous, his research provides new elements of knowledge, and opens up new lines of inquiry. Alphabet, a series of six works, summarizes the output of the discoveries on sign, shape and color surrounding the Self-portrait.