Galleria d’arte La Fonderia is pleased to present Fuori Casa, a solo exhibition by Marco Ferri, curated by Davide Sarchioni. The exhibition project, conceived specifically for the gallery’s spaces, develops from the relationship between Ferri’s home-studio in Tarquinia and the exhibition environment, from which a series of reflections and connections unfold around the most recent developments in the artist’s painterly research.
Ferri’s home-studio constitutes the generative context of his practice, where art and life intertwine inseparably: objects, surfaces, and materials worn and weathered by time coexist according to a layered logic of accumulations, traces, and transformations that find direct expression in his pictorial language. Painting thus takes shape as a processual practice, in which time and memory are deposited on the surface through marks, oxidations, and material alterations. The exhibition, on view from 27 May to 31 July, unfolds across the gallery’s two rooms, which describe distinct yet complementary moments — like the recto and verso of the same coin. The first room presents a group of new paintings in dialogue with a large-scale photograph of the studio, while the second houses a series of photographs by Marta Guidi portraying the interiors of his home-studio. The resulting installation generates “a visual and semantic slippage between the exhibition space and its backstage,” writes Davide Sarchioni in his critical text, “between the place of presentation and that of the work’s genesis, between a before and an after, where reality and representation tend to overlap and whose boundaries are constantly renegotiated, raising questions about the very status of the image. What emerges is an experience that leads the viewer through a continuous passage between vision and origin, until the gallery itself is transfigured — recreating, at least in part, the world imagined and inhabited by the artist in the intimacy of his studio.”
While the works leave their original space to be presented to the public, the studio itself is evoked within the exhibition itinerary. Into this context enters a significant new development: Ferri openly engages with the theme of landscape, through object-paintings of three-dimensional and polyhedral forms, across whose surfaces an unexpected and striking painting unfolds, inspired by the work of Corot, Constable, and Lapìn — emblematic figures of an imaginary bound to travel and the Grand Tour in Italy. This shift does not amount to a return to representation, but grafts itself coherently onto his research which, though rooted in predominantly aniconic outcomes, opens onto a lyrical dimension, expanding its field. The references to tradition are not assumed mimetically, but treated as visual and cultural materials to be traversed and reworked, so that the painted landscapes become a pretext through which painting continues to question itself — testing the relationship between vision, memory, and the construction of the image.
The journey evoked by Fuori Casa is not merely physical, but unfolds as an interior experience, slow and layered: a return to the roots of painterly practice – and to the exercise of landscape – which, in its continual reformulation, coincides with a further advancement of that very practice.
