Sao Paulo Brazil
Between the oneiric and the real, the visible and the concealed, we find Pablo Ferretti’s painting, accumulations and fleeting movements of color where nothing is evident and everything is diffuse: sometimes it seems to be clearly drawn, sometimes it seems to fade before our eyes.
Born in Porto Alegre (1974), Pablo Ferretti lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, having studied in England, returning with a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, in London, where he worked in the mythical National Gallery. In his case, this is not a biographic accident. Boasting a cultured pictorial vocabulary, Ferretti shows in his paintings the acquired sophistication – and the moods, occasionally – of living among Turners and other masters’ canvases. Whether in oil on canvas, or in recent experiments with school chalk on abrasive surfaces such as sandpaper and sand fixed onto the canvas, Ferretti is interested in the possibilities of pigment on support and the resilience of the layers of color. His canvases thus show evocations and movements, figurations of the spirit that reveal “unknown, nameless landscapes, polluted mental images, endowed with the same charge of mystery that constitutes the little accessible world of the unconscious”, as defined by Bernardo José de Souza.
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Pablo Ferretti
Solver, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
154 x 130 cm
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Pablo Ferretti
Clareira, 2022
Óleo e Cera sobre tela
100 x 120 cm
