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| RON FERRI: "IRONY" |
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| "A cool detached attitude of mind, characterized by recognition of the incongruities and complexities of experience." (Webster's College Dictionary) |
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| Most likely to be one of the best definitions for artist Ron Ferri! |
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| For the last three years, Ron Ferri has been preparing for a new show. He will be having a solo show at RVS Fine Art in Southampton, New York, from May 22nd through June 15th. And quite ironically it is about irons! |
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| The first impression one gets of Ron Ferri's art is one of contained energy. He is always on the move and one is constantly amazed by his awareness and adaptability to incorporate his art and life. Ron loves people and life and it shows. |
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| Born in the thirties in Rhode Island, after serving in the Air Force, Ron Ferri attended the Rhode Island School of Design, then the Rochester Institute of Technology, and New York University, where he studied under Radacavich and Esteben Vincente, with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and last but not least the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. |
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| His productions include sculptures and paintings of mixed media such as "Neon-Steel", "Neon-Plexiglas", wood and glass. Some of the details are fascinating. Particularly intriguing with his work is the possibility that Ron Ferri's use of materials reflects more than the influence of Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in the late sixties. He is constantly trying to do something that is not ordinary. His background in Hi-Tech taught Ferri very important lessons about scale, deep space, abbreviation of form, and the need to distort color to convey the truth of light. |
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| In the last fifteen years, Ron Ferri left his creations of modern materials and devoted himself to painting and drawing. Painting allowed him to be creative without an end or boundaries. Mr. Ferri is completely indifferent to trends and follows his instincts. He is in permanent evolution and progress. He has the extraordinary ability to use everyday objects in order to create totally new forms of expression, and therefore the ability to tap into the vital nerve of humanity. "He, in fact, combines the artist and the human being in a rare and rather unique entity. Indifferent and detached from the rules of what is considered fashionable, he follows his instincts in the pure tradition of the artisan-artists that flourished during the Rinascimento Florentino," said the late producer Franco Rosselini. His art is a lively and distinctive clip across his life encounters, development, and much of the surrounding art world. Part of his work incorporates current events whether in Bejing, Panama, and South Africa, all of which are constant sources of inspiration. |
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| Ron Ferri sculptures and paintings are found in the homes of well-known international collectors, including the likes of Elsa Peretti, the Niarchos, Diane von Fürstenberg, Oliver Stone, Jacqueline Stone, Aileen & Jerry Ford, Arnold Scaasi, Jack Nicholson, and Carly Simon in the United States; the Rothchilds, Henri Samuel, Mr. & Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, Mrs. Jacqueline Delubac, and Mr. Valentine in Europe, just to name a few. |
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| He also has donated sculptures and paintings for auction to raise funds for AIDS research, The Preservation of the Rain Forest, SOS Animal, and the Central Park Conservatory. His works are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum in Pennsylvania, the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Musée D'Art Moderne in St. Etienne, France. |
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| His new show "IRONY" at RVS Fine Art is a new approach he gives us on a common object. He stretches his imagination to the limit and again shows us his adaptability to incorporate art and life. "I am always amazed by his awareness and adaptability to incorporate his art and life. He is always on the move... Ron loves people and life and it shows," says China Machado. |
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| Probably the best definition of Ron Ferri's work is the one he himself gives: "A constant variation of a simple theme." |
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| A touch of class, an array of elegance, a way of life, an indifference to trends, a truth to art. What better IRONY? |
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