Partitura

Art Projects International is pleased to present Mariano Ferrante: Partitura — the fourth in the series of BACK WALL initiatives at the gallery. Focusing on works by Mariano Ferrante created in the mid-2010s, the exhibition highlights Partitura N18/14 (2014) and brings together a selection of more recent paintings from his Monocromo and Pintura series, including the large-scale painting Pintura N51/17 (2017) and a smaller diptych N20/19 (2019).

The exhibition offers a rare window into a critical period in the artist's career that coincided with the development of his well-known Pintura and Monocromo series of paintings. As Ferrante describes, “Partitura N18/14 is part of the evidence about my investigations of rhythm and movement within Latin American painting. Oscillating waves of color and the pencil as an instrument chosen for its strength, simplicity and sensitivity, the artist presents this mathematical composition of which we start being part immediately as we enter the room.”

A film documents Partitura para Exterior N27/16, an immersive metal labyrinth (30m x 7m) commissioned by the City of Buenos Aires, conceived as an invitation to “step inside one of my paintings.”

Curator Santiago Bengolea characterizes Ferrante as “a dedicated and obsessive researcher” examining “geometrical mathematical poses, movement, space and the concept of time in contemporary painting.”