Idolo del prisma

Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 2007 Genova - donazione

Ferrazzi, Ferruccio

GX1993.473

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 159; Larghezza: 93

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In his portrayal of this enigmatic androgynous figure, traversed in the alienating reversal of perspective cuts by the dynamic reflections of mirrors, Ferrazzi adopted the fundamental stylistic tensions of the variegated Novecento culture, developing a personal process of synthesis between his modern aesthetic sensibility and the direct references to classical tradition, then prevalent in the international climate of the "return to order".
In particular, the Roman artist took up the tendency to blur the realist structure of the pictorial composition in the perceptive indeterminacy of an alienating and ambiguous representation: a visual oxymoron frequent in the magic realism current. In his works Ferrazzi often used the prism motif, which is central to the composition of synthetic simultaneity in this painting. He elaborated a balanced expressive dialectic between stylistic and iconographic references to the Renaissance tradition and references to Boccioni's aesthetics and the mechanicality of the mannequins by Depero, author in 1917 of a watercolour on the same subject.