LAURA FERRETTI: HER ACHIEVEMENT OF AN INNER SPACE
IPaintings
by
Laura
Ferretti
convey
grace,
sensibility,
they
express
her
wish
to
live
in
an
inward
and
secret
world,
and
in
harmony
with
the
changeable
landscapes
she
paints.
Her
refusal
of
chaos
induces
Ferretti
to
search
for
a
superior,
Hegelian
order
where
two
dialectical
aspects
become
conciliated:
the
painter
and
the
freshness
of
an
universe
seen
with
astonishment,
as
if
it
were
the
beginning
of
the
life.
For
this,
our
painter
is
able
to
gaze
everything
amazed
as
if
it
were
the
first
time.
She
ignores
déjà
vu
and
commonplaces; she sweeps everything away to give space to improvisation, to impetuous strokes of her palette-knife.
This
"pondered
immediacy"
is
characteristic
of
our
painter:
she
traces
out
her
own
way
towards
light
that
gives
substance
to
everything and imbues flowers, hills, woods, waters. (Towards to light).
Goethe,
dying,
said
"Open
the
second
shutter
so
that
more
light
can
come
into
the
room".
Laura
Ferretti
opens
the
windows
of
her
senses
and
heart,
throws
open
her
glances
to
be
able
to
catch
the
light
that
makes
everything
impalpable,
a
mystic
halo,
metaphor
of
deep
knowledge
and
lyric
transport.
In
her
paintings
light
becomes
color
and
color
changes
into
light
to
bring
us
back
to
the
beginning of the life, to that primordial element every special aspect comes out from.
Laura
Ferretti
founds
her
pictorial
research
on
numberless
chromatic
ranges
of
colors
and
iridescent
shades,
so
you
can
see
seasons flowing, time gliding along. But, inside these changes, you find her will to reach something lasting, steady.
The
same
painter
says
"There
are
many
flowers:
they
stand
for
mankind.
I
love
the
ephemeral
flowers
that
gladden
and
scent
the
air, I love the ephemeral men who would like to be eternal". (Under a blue sky: wild flowers).
These
words
tell
us
how
painting
means,
for
her,
a
journey
towards
a
definite
goal,
a
superior
order.
So
she
adds
meanings
to
her
landscapes.
The
wave
isn't
a
wave
only;
it
means
the
water
of
the
life,
its
rhythmical
becoming.
Her
yellow
skies
express
her
inner
symphony. The brightness of the moon invites us to romantic reveries. The spring flowers, the corals give us surprising feelings.
"Joy
in
sinking"
is
a
symbolic
one.
In
fact,
the
Tuscan
painter
loses
herself
in
the
breathing
of
Infinite
(do
you
remember
the
poem
by Giacomo Leopardi?).
She
hardly
disappears
blending
her
soul
with
the
world.
But,
blending,
Ferretti
recovers
herself
as
an
essential
part
of
the
universe.
Her
feeling
of
melancholy
changes
into
a
vital
optimism,
evident
in
the
atmosphere
of
her
paintings
full
of
serene
harmony,
poetic
contemplation.
The
strokes
of
the
brush
and
palette
knife
by
Laura
Ferretti
look
like
a
veil
that
hides
and,
at
the
same
time,
discloses
our
own
emotions.
This
veil
is
metaphor
of
the
same
art.
It
is
escape
into
dream
and
meeting
with
real
life,
research
of
one's
own
inner
world
and compare with the others, with the things to catch inspiration from their colors, sounds, scents.
Laura
Ferretti
starts
from
landscapes
and
arrives
to
a
personal
style
open
to
the
suggestions
of
the
informal
art.
Her
paintings
transmit
the
immediacy
of
the
perception
and
the
enthusiasm
of
the
passion.
So
finite
and
non-finite,
realistic
description
and
the
power
of
a
symbolic
color,
soaked
in
pure
psychic
energy,
blend
happily.
It
means
reality
becomes
a
pretext
to
let
burst
out
a
palette
of lively, musical colors. They bring us back to "Improvisations" by Kandinskj.
They
are
colors
that
stand
for
something
else:
a
liberating
action
able
to
turn
vacuum,
chaos
into
silence,
harmony,
creative
joy
(Peppers).