Roberto Ferri

Roberto Ferri (born 1978) is an Italian artist and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters (Caravaggio in particular) and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy, and Symbolism.[1]

Biography

In 1996, he graduated from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a local art school in his hometown. He began to study painting on his own and moved to Rome in 1999, to increase research on ancient painting, beginning at the end of the 16th century, in particular. In 2006, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

His work is represented in important private collections in Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, San Antonio (Texas), Qatar, Dublin, Boston, Malta, and the Castle of Menerbes in Provence.[2][3] His work was featured in the controversial Italian pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2011,[4] and has exhibited at Palazzo Cini, Venice in the Kitsch Biennale 2010.

Bibliography
  • Roberto Ferri: oltre i sensi by Roberto Ferri, Fabio Isman, Italian Cultural Institute (London, England), Palazzo del Vittoriano (Rome, Italy), Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.), 2009; ISBN 88-572-0211-9.

See also

References
  1. Marco Bussagli "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-08. Retrieved 2012-02-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), "Il Visionario", Libero Libro, November 16, 2010.
  2. JKK Fine Arts, Gallery of Modern Symbolism: Roberto Ferri Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  3. (in Italian) Roberto Ferri - Biography at robertoferri.net
  4. Anita Pepe , "Benedetta Biennale", Artribune, June 23, 2011.
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