ETRUSCANS AND THEIR WORLD ON THE CANVASES BY LAURA FERRETTI
The
beautiful
and
significant
travelling
exhibit
"
Deep
roots:
Etruscans
and
their
world
"
by
Laura
Ferretti
about
Etruscan
history
and
culture
has
two
worthy
narrative
and
artistic
paths.
At
first,
she
has
been
able
to
find
out
in
the
wide
historiographic
book
some
of
the
most
advanced
and
mean
full
aspects
of
Etruscan
life.
The
harmony
between
man
and
nature,
their
love
for
animals,
the
equal
and
not
marginal
female
role,
their
bright
and
merrymaking
wedding
life,
their
serene
and
sacred
view
of
death.
Their
ability
to
create vases,jewels.
To
create
poetry.
Along
the
years
all
these
fragments
emotioned
Laura
who
felt
them
so
much
alive
that
she
needed
to
communicate
her
inner
sensations,
to
offer
a
means
of
reaching
these deep and ancient roots.
The
second
path
is
her
research
for
a
personal
and
effectual
stylistic
expression.
Ferretti
has
created
in
such
an
original
way
the
expressive
means
to
organize
the
contents,
to
make
them
alive
and
involving.
From
here,
in
the
aureal
rapports,
the
dynamism,
the
spyral
as
dynamic
expression
and,
at
same
time,
as
chronological
story:
a
sort
of
an
old
parchment,
which
rolls
down
itself
in
front
of the spectator with the seal of an actuality which finds its principal source in the artistic expression.
In
conclusion
of
this
critical
note,
I
intend
to
go
back
over
the
philosopher
Schopenhauer
and
the
writer
Oscar
Wilde
for
which
art
represents the moment sublimating that calms the uproar of passions and the sense of dismay and unhappiness.
All this denotes that, from the Greek model to the Etruscan one, art has got up to us as a universal message.
Laura Ferretti has refined this with a breath of fascinating poetry.
Prof. Giovanni LOMBARDI
Italian
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