THE COMEL AWARD FINALISTS

Gianluigi Ferrari

Altilia (CS), ITALY
gianluigiferrariscultore@gmail.com

THE COMEL AWARD FINALISTS

Gianluigi Ferrari

Altilia (CS), ITALY
gianluigiferrariscultore@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Gianluigi Ferrari was born in Cosenza in 1988, and he graduated with a degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro. His artistic research investigates everything that sight, through appearance, hides. Sculpture, in particular, is born in the metaphysical possibility of seeing beyond things, choosing one among the infinite possibilities that present themselves to the eye. Each choice is an exclusion, an affirmation, and a negation in a contestable way. In such a choice, his poetic thought is embodied, as the choice excludes all other possibilities, generating a drama, a rupture between the flattening that the shadow of the gaze both precludes and includes.

ARTWORK IN CONTEST

Come in cielo così in terra, 2024

SCULPTURE - Aluminium sheet embedded in a specular plaster panel
50 x 50 x 50 cm

Gianluigi Ferrari, with his work Come in cielo così in terra, proposes a metaphorical reversal of the gaze. Outside is the light that blinds and filters through the holes cut in the shapeless surface of the aluminium. Those same holes become light rays, drawing an intimate, submerged, persuasive world.

AWARDS

SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY 2024

With the following motivation:

In his work ‘Come in cielo così in terra’ (As in heaven so on earth), the artist proposes a linguistic metamorphosis and a spiritual and almost mystical reversal of the gaze. The light crosses a shapeless aluminium wall on which a sort of epigraph is carved along the path of a sort of epigraph and is reflected on the dark, backplane of the inspired installation, becoming in the sign of writing the symbolic and narrative motif of an inner catharsis.