CIPHER FOR A SECOND RENAISSANCE

by Jean-Pierre Faye

Darkness. The night is of every colour. Maybe a thousand and one.

To accost colour from every side: this is Ferdinando Ambrosino's job. A shadow that is red. Or that blazes yellow. Starting from the Springs of 1967, in a becoming towards sibylline women in 1991.

When it enters a book, painting does not lose its movement. On the contrary, it gains an extra one, which is the marvel of transformation, page by page.

Thus the transformat is explored, which is something that operates in language, in history, in landscape, in other words the thing, at their junction as narration. Narrating figure, notes Carmine Benincasa: the road “of distant geographies to recount to the world”, there it is, leafed through, as the pages follow on, almost line by line, painting by painting. Painting in a book is narrative joy here. Truly a pirate-style accostment of the world sensation.

Vivacious and highly unususal, in this opera of colours, where the song bursts forth like a musical wave of Schönberg's, between the Verklärte Nacht and the enigmatic and unprecedented Wanderer, written by him for a sequence of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Second Renaissance, in fact, because it is Italy that permanently announces it, and invents painting for Europe.