Federico Ferrarini was born in 1976 in Verona.

Professional Experiences:
After the art school diploma, he attends the art academy in Bologna  and Venezia, where his passion for painting bursts out.
Open to the most different emotions, he enriches his artistic knowledge with illustration, graphics and sculpture, fields stilll giving him great satisfaction. After meeting an contemporary art dealer, his works become part in a national, vast and transversal market, thus giving the artist a chance of expressing himself, and not only of communticating, with his audience. This is the keystone in Ferrarini’s production.

Among the most important experiences:
The exhibition set up at the Chamber of Commerce of Baltimore, in Maryland (USA), where huge works of great emotional impact were shown.
Solo show, coodinated by brilliant Gianni Sandri, for SAAB, the swedish car company. This cooperation gives the artist the idea of joining, or better twining part of his artwork with marketing communication projects, but lending to the idea something he already has made.
A couple of solo shows in Albissola Marina, in the same place where history was made by Asger Jorn, Lucio Fontana, Aligi Sassu, Saverio Cavalli and other representative artists of the last century.     
The atmosphere you can breathe in certain places, and his deep love for the land, help Ferrarini emerge in the Ligurian panorama with great satisfaction.
Permanent collection of his works inside the contemporary art gallery “NoneArt”, held by Daniele Liguori and Flavio Facincani in Bardolino, an evocative area, his first of many ateliers ( “Sheep cropping the world”  in “Atelier”).
Solo show in Rieti, entitled “Mandala searching”: ten works partially witnessing his visual ideas on faith and his sometimes ironic ideas on human beings, lead today, more than ever, to modify according to their taste the “mandala”, that is the perfect doctrine: natural evolution or moral defeat?
The exceptional attention given by local tv and press was the omen of a new and concrete working dimension in Lazio.   
Cooperation with Yamamay and “artist challenge” to the world of fashion.

Ferrarini the artist
Ferrarini expresses himself within a world of global communication, a world of art demanding  communication at all costs, maybe because of habit or out of real necessity.
The research of the missing part in this dichotomy, the connecting ring, the message as an emotional vehicle in re ipsa, define the works of the artist.
His will, or better his need of using figurative means of expression explodes into his works. His spirit, captured by the canvas, awaits the spectator in order to create an immediate contact between their inner dimensions: the spectator is transported into time and space to a “ place” where communication is, and could only be bilateral, unique and unitarian.
Being strongly sensitive to emotions, Ferrarini totally absorbs the sensations, even the negative ones, surrounding him every day, and his works become the only real moment of reconcicliation among his memories, intuition, perception and suggestions. This results in three options: either break, or equilibrium or alienation. Spectators are immeditely conscious of which is the option they’re in front of.
Strenght is the leading thread in the first case: it’s the courage and boldness of the artist, curiously looking at life, guessing what’s around him.
Mysticism is the main charachteristic in the second option, that is the magnetic balance between opposites: man and woman, jing and jang and, again, man and machine and technology, in and out.
The third option proposes his works as the fragile trait d’union between fantasy,  the tale, as it has never been told before, and reality.
Ferrarini’s works are made with materials consisting in complex elements which, in a natural state and even chemically, reject each other: metals forced to cohexist, mixed paints having too different charachteristics, colours joined because of will rather than of accordance; that is forces and their energy mastered and balanced by the artist obstinacy.
Spectators are struck by the energy, softened by irony, coming from the experimentation with different genres and materials, brought to its limits by the continuous research of light ( the perfect one? The interior one?). It’s about force tamed by strenght.

I was not required the description of Ferrarini as a man, but  knowing him, I somehow owe him this.  

Federico Ferrarini is a person living on sensations and purity, which means a hard life. Federico is “too much” of veverything, sensitive for sure, but has an interior strenght coming only from certain  desperate situations. His works are always on the watershed between a creation lead by the “positive” within him and the urge of expiating not really faults, but something he cannot take the merit for. Federico will never be able to stop creating, because it’s his only way for being free from the yoke we call natural existence rules. Federico as a man cannot live without Ferrarini as an artist, his works manage to convey this unbreakable bound.

Fulvio Santorelli