Ronchini Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to announce the fourth solo exhibition of Sergio Fermariello, following the ones in 2000, 2005 and 2008.
Once again, the artist’s unmistakable mark invades the space of the Gallery, crowding it with untiring and timeless warriors, where usual deeds echo within panels and sculptures made of plate and corten steel.
Fermariello’s warriors are tirelessly born again, thus becoming part of a never interrupted cycle where a line of memory confirms the importance of identity, in the imperceptible mutations which strengthen the choice of taking history with oneself, without giving up its origins, deliberately highlighting the power of gesture.
The thick netting of ideograms is what composes a secret language, among contrasts, full spaces and emptiness, proactive of a courageous comparison.
The double, which is a permanent characteristic of these art works, exhibits its dance, shields for protecting and blades for fighting; a skillfully managed endless fight.
In the art works timeless warriors rule the scene, in an indefinite space, of Sergio’s personal universe, through a dialogue with an up-to-dateness, always evolving not in its shape but in its thought.
Fermariello smartly exhibits a dauntless parade of intentions, skillfully moulded and shaped, leaving us with the pleasant action of observing them in their best poses.
On the occasion of the exhibition the Gallery will illustrate Sergio Fermariello’s Archive, created for the necessary certification of art works.
SERGIO FERMARIELLO was born in Naples on 29 April 1961.
In 1989, in Milan, he wins the International Award «Saatchi & Saatchii» for young artists. In the same year he starts to work with the Lucio Amelio Gallery in Naples.
He thus joins, with one of his art works, the collection Terrae Motus, founded by the Neapolitan manager. In those years he exhibits at Protirion in Spalato, at Albrecht Gallery in Munich and at Capricorno Gallery in Venice.
In 1991 he is invited to partecipate in the International exhibition «Metropolis», at Martin Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and in the exhibition «Les Pictographes» at the Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix in Les Sables-d’Olonne.
In1992 he exhibits at the Gallerie Yvon Lambert in Paris. In the same year he is invited by Giovanni Castagnoli to «Cadencias», a travelling exhibition at the principal museums in South America and to III Biennial in Istanbul.
In 1993 Achille Bonito Oliva dedicates him a personal hall in the Italian Pavillion at the XLV Biennal International Art Exhibition in Venice.
In 1996 he participates in «Contemporanea Como 2» at Villa Olmo and in XII Quadrennial in Rome.
In 1998 he partecipates in «900 Nudo» at Museo del Risorgimento in Rome and in the exhibition: «Tracce Significanti» at the Foundation J. F. Costopoulos in Athens.
In 2004 he presents in New York, at Pier 17, the travelling installation: «Avviso ai Naviganti».
In 2005, one of his works is purchased by the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, at the contemporary art pavilion.
In 2008 he is present with three solo exhibitions at the following galleries: Flora Bigai in Pietrasanta, Ronchini in Terni e Niccoli in Parma. In the same year, he installs one of his new art works in the new premises of Bocconi University in Milan.
In July 2009, at the MAC Museum in Niteroi, Brasil, he presents the installation: «Migranti»; an exhibition later on reproposed at the Museum PAN in Naples.
In 2011 he presents his solo exhibition at La casa rossa of Anacapri.
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