With a typical attitude of his modus operandi, Ferruccio Ascari takes on a project started ten years ago and, by developing some of its internal aspects, gives birth to a new artwork, a large-scale diptych that functions as a bridge between two distinct moments of his creative career. A female and a male body in their actual size are captured in the exact moment in which they seem to jump out and sink (the eye is somehow enchanted) in a teeming and dark matter, which is the same matter they are made of. These mutating cells – coming to life or dying? – are surely present in each process of alteration that we can encounter in every other piece of this exhibition. These artworks were born on a very unusual moment, that of the Covid-19 pandemic that has taken over the planet in the last months.

 

Secondo Natura [According to Nature] is the title of this exhibition, due to the underlying link between this new set of artworks and the time we are living. The nature that the artist is presenting to us is one without balance, restlessly experimenting with new life forms, whose only aim seems to be that of reproducing, breeding, sprouting, even in us and through us.

What we see here are organic forms that however do not have links with any living thing but rather are the manifestation of an energy which is a never-ending discourse between permanence and transformation.