Monocromo

Art Projects International showcases Ferrante's recent works featuring complex two-dimensional structures that reveal themselves as monochromes when viewed from a distance. The artist hand-paints these compositions using 6mm lines that form a pattern, incorporating subtle alterations and apparent mistakes as intentional design choices revealing the human trace.

Works like Monocromo No. 37/21 employ four colored lines (yellow, light blue, dark blue, and teal) creating discrete color parallelograms that function similarly to pixel color mixing. Viewers experience optical effects including moiré patterns, as their perception struggles to process the intricate designs.

Ferrante explores whether “the monochrome as a singularity does not exist,” inviting audiences to engage with his expanded painting practice while investigating perception's limits and artifice's meaning-making capacity. His practice engages with constructivist, concrete, and neo-concrete Latin American art movements.