Velio Ferretti
PISTOIA, Tuscany, Italy
Born in Pistoia in 1952 i am a self-taught, have cultivated a passion for painting since i was a boy...
About the artist
Velio Ferretti
Joined In 2017
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About the artist
Velio Ferretti
Joined In 2017
(10 Followers)
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Born in Pistoia in 1952 i am a self-taught, have cultivated a passion for painting since i was a boy. My artistic career began in 2015 when i was able to dedicate myself entirely to an intense study of colors and materials in continuous search for a synthesis between them. I live and works both in my hometown and in my new residence on the Island of Elba
For me, matter is at the center of everything, malleable enough to be cut, mixed, spread, engraved or layered, thus demonstrating its infinite possibilities of transformation. This is why my works, rather than paintings in the traditional sense, can be defined as material concretions which recall, in terms of consistency and colour, aggregates of minerals, wall surfaces, rocky ripples. Mine is research into both the artistic and 'existential' implications of matter, understood not only as a principle, origin, matrix, but also as an expression of primordial forces that unite nature and the cosmos, the earth and galaxies, space- time and the immeasurable. Forces in which my creative act also participates, holding together both the organic and ancestral levels of matter, the microcosm of the work with the macrocosm of nature.
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self-taught
ARTISTI DEL TERRITORIO
Fornace Pasquinucci
Capraia Fiorentina (FI)
14 – 29 Settembre 2024
Collettiva
30 sept. - 12 oct. 2023
ART-ART GALLERY FLORENCE (I)
SOLO EXHIBITION : THE PRIMACY OF MATTER
2-16 may 2023
IKONICA GALLERY . MILAN (I)
Collective Exhibition : ARTISTIKAMENTE A MILANO
1-15 sept 2022
DANTE'S HOUSE - FLORENCE (I)
Collective Exhibition: THE WORLD IS AN HIVE
12 October - 30 November 2019
Italian Culture Institute of Nedherlands - AMSTERDAM
ART MADY IN ITALY
Collective Exhibition
1-15 september 2019
Saint Mary of the laity Church GUBBIO ( ITA)
Collective Exhibition
13 October - 6 November 2018
IDENTITA' MATERICHE - PISTOIA ( ITA )
Collective Exhibition
8 -29 september 2018
Saint George Library in Pistoia ( ITA)
SOLO EXHIBITION
5 may - 13 june 2018 VALIANI 1831 ART - PISTOIA
AD LIMINA - SOLO EXHIBITION
10-24 February 2018
NAPLES - Castel dell'Ovo
DIALOGUES BETWEEN GENERATION
Collective
17 - 23 November 2017 LUCCA
Bottega Nuova
BEYOND THE GRID Solo exhibition
28 October - 25 November Naples
Spazio Martucci 56
Collective
22 september - 5 october FLORENCE
GADARTE Gallery
TOWARDS ELSESHERE Solo exhibition
14 - 18 June 2017 BASEL
The Artbox Project Basel 1.0
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