CRITICAL NOTES AND CURRICULUM
by Clorinda RUZZI
Laura
Ferretti
lives
and
works
in
her
native
land,
the
Maremma,
of
which
she
feels
and
tells
the
charm.
Throughout
the
years,
still
remaining
faithful
to
figurative
art,
she
has
invested
her
works
with
symbolic
meanings.
And
the
places
have
become
more
and
more
places of the spirit, ways for an articulate reflection on life, on the actual sense of life.
So
Maremma,
Maremma
of
today,
of
the
sunflowers,
simple
and
vital
and
luxuriant,
but
also
the
ancient
one,
that
bitter
one
of
marshes,
Maremma
with
its
wide
skies
becomes
a
vision
of
her
life
and
roots.
Desert,
in
its
hard,
naked
essentiality,
alludes
to
the
encounter
with
ourselves:
an
encounter
which
goes
beyond
appearances
and
common
places.
And
also
sea
such
mutable,
such
charming
and
elusive
painted
with
its
scale
of
light
and
shadows.
As
life.
And
then
deeper
and
deeper
into
sea
depths:
liquid
search
of
what
is
in
the
depths,
beyond
the
actual
knowledge
of
ourselves,
in
that
fascinating
and
multiform
essence
that
is
our
subconscious.
Everything
flows.
As
seasons
picked
in
flowing
time,
in
growing
pale
of
colors
reproduced
with
basic
colors
pure
or
blended
in
complementary
colors
red-green,
blue-orange,
yellow-violet,
white-black.
Few
colors,
always
the
same,
but
they
produce
emotions
ever
new
and
new,
quivering
emotions.
The
fundamental
elements
of
her
painting
are
a
strong
sense
of
color
and
a
true
love
for
light
that
always
breaks
forth
to
animate
her
work.
It
is
more
special
the
clever
lightness
of
touch
she
unites
the
silky
softness
of
oil
colors
with
the
rigidity
of
the
steel
spatula.
So
it
is
that
be
born
contrasts
or
strokes
of
thick,
dark
color
standing
out
on
dreamy
atmosphere.
And
shapes,
in
their
essentiality
and
immediacy,
become
more
and
more
three-dimensional
and
clear
as
we
distance
ourselves
from
painting.
Lately
her
expressive
feeling
induces
Laura
Ferretti
to
imbue
with
emotions
that
make
poetic
her
landscapes
moving
in
nuances
or
evocatively
lost
in
the
mist.
Contours
disappear,
shapers
turn
into
allusions,
secret
atmospheres
alluding
with
marks
that
don’t
tell.
A
new
spiritually
appears,
timid,
through
hiding
and
rarefied
charm
of
colors.It
is
different
the
azure
thread
that,
along
the
years,
produced
some
works,
result
of
a
deep,
punctual
and
personal
search,
both
on
the
religious
side,
both
on
the
expressive
one.The
first
sacred
representation
is
an
”
Assumption
of
Our
Lady
”,
an
Altarpiece
that
breaks
with
the
expressive
canons
of
tradition.
The
event,
pervaded
by
a
modern
religious
sensitivity,
is
narrated
through
manifold
spaces
invaded
and
joined
by
the
light,
through
an
essentiality
that
excludes
any
merely
decorative
element.
Her
altarpiece
representing
“The
Assumption
of
Our
Lady
”
is
placed
in
the
16
th
–
century
Sanctuary
of
Our
Lady
of
Charity
in
Seggiano
(Gr).
Other
sacred
works
follow,
backwards,
the
drama
of
“
Our
Lady
at
the
foot
of
the
Cross
”,
altarpiece
placed
in
the
ancient
Church
of
Mercy
in
Grosseto.
After
a
“
Nativity
”,
essential,
but
under
a
jubilation
of
stars.
The
theme
of
the
faith
in
everyday
life
is
expressed
in
“
Love's
flowing
around
“.
The
work
“
And
the
Word
is
made
flash
”
has
brought
the
message
of
the
great
mystery
of
the
God
who
becomes
man
for
love
and,
at
the
same
time,
that
of
the
great
significance
of
the
yes
said
by
the
Maid
of
God.”
The
smile
of
Mary
”
is
a
work
connected
with
Medjugorie
messages
and
the
Gospa
redeeming
sharing.
Besides
this
Marian
cycle,
we
find
the
works
“
Thinking
about
the
Holy
Shroud
”
and
the
XII
Station
of
the
Cross,
titled
“
The
Dead
of
Jesus
–
Euthanasia
”,
a
painful
Way,
provocatively
updated,
born
of
famous
Venetian
paiters
will
who
invited
the
Tuscan
painter
to
realize
the
project
together
them.
The
Way
is
placed
in
San
Pietro
Orseolo
Church
in
Venice-Mestre.
“
Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world
”
(title
of
the
travelling
exhibition)
arises
out
of
her
love
for
Etruscan
people
and
their
culture.
It
is
a
pictorial
project
realized
in
a
very
original
way.
The
every
day
life
of
this
ancient
people,
so
modern
and
mysterious,
lives
again
in
front
of
our
eyes,
coming
out
from
their
tombs,
guided
by
a
spiral
that
joins
together
fragments
of
objects
or
tomb
frescos
and
statues
up
to
reproduce
the
entire
subject
in
the
first
square.
Among
her
exhibitions
we
remember
the
main
ones:
at
the
Gallery
Pascucci
in
Grosseto,
at
Umbria
Expo
Arte
in
Bastia
Umbra,
at
the
Pignatelli
Palace
in
Rome,
at
the
Ghibellino
Palace
in
Empoli
(Florence),
at
Piccolomini
Palace
in
Pienza.
On
March
2000
she
presents
her
exhibition,
titled
“
My
journey
into
the
colors
”,
at
Bechtel
Inernational
Center
of
Stanford
University
in
California.In
April
2001
Laura
Ferretti
is
on
display
at
"Arketipo",
an
International
Exposition,
that
takes
place
at
the
Castle
of
Este
in
Ferrara.In
December
of
the
same
year
she
is
on
display
at
the
2
nd
Biennal
Exhibition
of
Sacred
Art
that
takes
place
in
the
Crypt
of
the
Cathedral
in
Pienza.
Since
January
2002
she
is
working
at
a
pictorial
project
about
Etruscan
Civilization.
It
is
a
rich
and
articulate
work
so
as
to
make
alive
and
updated
this
ancient
people
and
his
culture.
It
forms
an
organic
nucleus
for
an
exhibition
on
display
in
Italy
and
abroad
titled
“Deep
roots:
Etruscans
and
their
world”.
Painting
by
Laura
Ferretti
makes
a
very
good
impression
on
stranger
specialists
of
this
field
so
the
painter
begins
a
continuative
co-
operation
with
important
galleries
abroad,
like
"La
Mostra
Gallery"
in
Cardiff
Wales(U.K.).
On
March
2004,
the
painter
takes
part
in
the
opening
exhibition
of
the
Welsh
gallery,
La
Mostra
Gallery,
together
with
the
four
painters
selected
to
represent
Italian
Art
in
the
United
Kingdom.
On
June
of
the
same
year
“La
Mostra
Gallery”
organizes
an
important
art-exhibition,
titled
“Tuscan
landscapes
between
dream
and
reality”,
for
the
artist.
Laura
Ferretti
conveys
her
warm
affection
for
her
land
and
also
the
charm,
the
dreamful
atmosphere
you
may
find
in
Tuscany
through
her
forty
paintings
on
display.Her
work
gains
the
favor
of
the
many
visitors.
Laura
Ferretti
shows
her
pictorial
project
about
Etruscans
and
their
world
from
2
nd
to
28
th
October
2004,
in
the
Archaeological
Museum
in
Grosseto.
It
is
the
first
leg
of
the
travelling
exhibit
titled
“Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
World”.
Twenty-five
paintings
narrate
Etruscan
love
for
live.
At
the
side
of
these
works,
landscapes
painted
with
palette-knife
show
foreshortenings
of
Tuscany.
Land
and
sky
out
of
the
time.
In
October,
paintings
by
Laura
Ferretti
are
on
display
in
a
very
glamorous
and
defined
Golf
Club
in
Cardiff.
At
the
end of October she takes part in the Manchester Art Show, England.
In
October
2004
the
painter
comes
to
an
agreement
with
the
US
Gallery
ArtSpreadDpt
in
Chicago
for
a
lasting
cooperation.
December,
17
th
2004
she
participate
in
the
charity
auction
for
the
NSPCC,
in
Cardiff.
In
August,
6
th
-21
st
2005
the
travelling
exhibit
brings
the
Etruscans
on
display
in
the
rooms
of
the
sixteenth-century
Nerucci
Palace
in
Castel
del
Piano
with
the
patronage
of
the
commune.
In
Dicember,
3
rd
-17
th
2005
the
painter
participates
in
"CENTRO
D'ARTE
SAN
VIDAL'
in
Venice
to
the
demonstration
MAGIC
COLORS
OF
VENICE.
As
regards
the
exhibition
"The
contemporary
Tuscan
Art
in
Bolivia"
organized
by
the
Tuscan
Region
the
painter
shows
her
works
dedicated
to
Etruscans
"
Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world
"
in
the
Italian
Embassy
in
La
Paz
(Bolivia).
From
September
23
rd
to
October
5
th
2006:"Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world",
travelling
exhibition,
Luigi
Sturzo
Gallery,
Venice
Mestre.
From
October
15
th
to
30
th
2006:
"Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world",
travelling
exhibition,
Centre
of
Culture,
Villa
Pozzi,Venice
Mestre.
From
December
16
th
to
January
7
th
2007:Exhibition
of
Sacred
Paintings,
Luigi
Sturzo
Gallery,
Venice
Mestre
.
September
22
nd
-
October
3
rd
2007:
One-man
Exhibit
"
What
color
might
tell
me..."
that
opens
the
artistic
season
of
the
Luigi
Sturzo
Art
Gallery
in
Venice-Mestre.
From
December
15
th
,2007
to
January
20
th
,2008
“Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world”,
travelling
exhibition,
is
on
display
in
the
Archaeological
Museum“Isidoro
Falchi”
in
Vetulonia
(Gr).
School-children
and
their
teacher
had
an
interesting
lesson
of
art
and
history
together
with
the
painter.
In
March14
th
-31
st
,2008
Laura
Ferretti
is
at
the
exhibition
of
”The
painful
Way
-
XV
provocations”
at
the
Civic
Tower
in
Venice-Mestre.
The
review
AD
dedicates
a
space
to
the
painter
with
publication
of
critical
notes
and
images
in
October,
2008.
Her
painting
continue
to
have
an
enticing
estimation
at
home
and
abroad.
It
is
just
arrived
an
invitation
to
put
on
display
a
one-man
exhibition
from
the
important
Canadian
galleria
“Galerie
Gora”
in
Montréal.
Her
next
appointment
is
“A
Homage
to
Turner”,
international
event
titled
“Lights,
emotions
and
fantastic
riddles”
in
Castle
of
Este
in
Ferrara,
from
February
14
th
-
22
nd
,2009.
Her
works
are
appreciated
very
much
both
by
the
public
and
the
art
reviewers.
In
October
2010
Laura
Ferretti
began
a
collaboration
with
the
Foundation
Guseppe
De
Nittis
and
the
Cultural
Center
Zerouno
of
Barletta.In
the
period
December
15
th
to
30
th
,
in
Barletta,
the
artist
participates
in
the
exhibition
"Between
the
tones
of
an
ideal
space".The
show
is
curated by Dr. Anna Soricaro sponsored by the Fondazione G. De Nittis.
Also
in
Barletta,
in
the
period
April
15
th
to
May
10
th
,
2011,
personal
exposure
"Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world."From
3
rd
to
15
th
October
2011
she
exhibited
at
the
Hiring
SW1
Gallery
in
London,
with
the
organization
of
the
New
Artemisia
Gallery.
From
14
th
to
16
th
October
2011,
the
artist
took
part
in
the
event
"Weekend
with
the
Arts"
in
the
exhibition
organized
by
the
CulturalFerrara.La
Ferrara
Pro
Art
Gallery
in
collaboration
with
Domus
Turkish,
is
to
select
artists
for
the
6
th
"International
Biennial
of
Contemporary
Art
Ferrara",
scheduled
in
2012.
Her
work
"The
song
of
the
curves
and
lines
of
complementary
colors"
has
been
selected
to
participate
in
the
International
Prize"Tokyo"
(May
2011).From
3
to
15
October
2011
he
exhibited
at
the
Hiring
SW1
Gallery
in
London,
with
the
organization
of
the
New
Artemisia
Gallery.
From
the
14th
to
the
16th
of
October
2011
the
artist
participates
in
the
"Week
end
with
the
Art"
event
in
Ferrara.
The
review
organized
by
the
Ferrara
Pro
Art
Cultural
Association,
in
collaboration
with
the
Domus
Turca
gallery,
is
aimed
at
selecting
artists
for
the
"6th
International
Biennial
of
Contemporary
Art
in
Ferrara,
scheduled
for
2012".
From
9
to
30
January
2012,
in
Barletta,
he
exhibited
his
works
"Oltre
il
cielo"
in
the
review
"Between
body
and
mind",
an
event
organized
by
the
Zerouno Cultural Center, under the patronage of the G. De Nittis Foundation.
In
April
2013,
at
the
residence
of
the
Ambassador
of
Italy
in
Ireland,
Lucan
House,
the
painter
was
invited
to
represent
the
Tuscan
art,
exposing
her
works
"Deep
roots:
the
Etruscans
and
their
world"
in
the
cultural
event
"
Tuscan
Spring.
A
taste
of
Italy
",
organized
by
Ambassador
Maurizio
Zanini.
In
the
same
year,
due
to
a
serious
and
devastating
illness,
the
painter
was
forced
to
interrupt
her
activity. His latest work, a spatula of sublime interpretation, remains untitled.
They
wrote
about
her:
G.
Gasparotti,
S.
Perin,
G.
Turola,
G.
Lombardi,
Anna
Soricaro,
Elizabeth
Lorenz,
U.Marianelli,
G.
Scotti,
C.
Ruzzi, T. Paloscia, P. Pisani, M. Violi , A. Branca, R. Marzocchi.