Paintings by Ferdinando Ambrosino inspired by archaeological sites in Campania
This exhibition encompasses part of Ferdinando Ambrosino’s artistic production between 2007 and 2013.
The artwork is inspired by the archaeological sites of Campania: Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Phlegraean Fields, but also Stabiae and the Amalfi coast – a cultural heritage of indisputable value – observed, visited and interpreted by a contemporary artist.
This is a journey in reverse between two civilisations, the Greek and the Roman, projected into the future – a cultural and artistic project with decidedly interesting implications for the study of our archaeological assets.
It is in this grafting of Roman on top of Greek civilisation, in this coexistence whose boundaries are uncertain, that Ambrosino had found the habitat for his painting – a treasure trove of finds and emotions, of traces and memories, on which his imagination feeds.
Ambrosino is an artist who appears – but only appears – to live submerged in a remote and utterly vanished reality. But in fact he creates a bridge between two eras, alternating incessantly between yesterday and today, aware that anything but the most superficial reading of the present cannot ignore history.
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