Francesco Ferlisi

Studio
Via Coriolano, 4
00181 Rome - Italy
Phone: +39 6 7805904

The inner and outer sides
of a woman,1997
Oil on canvas 80x60

Francesco Ferlisi's painting is a scrupulous and careful work of excavation, not meant to expose findings but to found his research on a phenomenology of reality which is authentically modern because, by mediating metaphysics and surrealism, it searches and finds the peculiar character of contemporary art: the retrieval of the sense of the everyday as "lived" through an oniric and symbolic filter.
His anthropocentric vision is a manifest for the excess of alienation which becomes the absence-presence of the human figure: where the sphere, recurring volume and stylistical initial, indicates a teleology of the becoming and emptiness, symmetrically, brings us back to the sphere of the unknown and, perharps, of the unknowable, while the phallic vitality of the vertical elements often leaves the field of the creative magic for the pyramid, which is always the solidification of triangular perfection, and which drives us to the temporal category of pitagoric nature: the golden verses that make the lasting eternal.

Mechanisms and geometries: gears, spheres and wheels, in the role of disquieting toys and labyrinthical routes, are the signal of a hidden underpinning of the unconscious from which Ferlisi brings out tatters of truth that involve us in a sharing complicity.
So art for Ferlisi is not representation but vital communication, bio-psychological of the individual with the whole.
The happy and evocative character of his painting is, therefore, in the capability of grafting the poetical of the indistinct inside an Euclidean iconography which declines rationality and sign: technological symbolism and lyric vibration.

Italo Evangelisti

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