The Estense Castle in Ferrara hosts an exhibition dedicated to Ferrara-born painter Gianfranco Goberti, which traces the artist's extensive and varied career through more than forty works created over more than half a century.
Starting from a sort of New Figuration in which the image re-emerges after the long season of Informalism, since the late 1960s Goberti has been developing an original optical figurative style in paintings featuring mirrors and striped armchairs, with which he explores in particular the themes of the relationship between reality and image and visual perception.
After the 1980s and in the following decades, his painting focused on objects (shirts, ties, sofas, armchairs) that summarise his research into the central and recurring motif of the line, which is also expressed in his works dedicated to ropes, one of the most famous aspects of his rich production.
Among his last series of paintings, created at the turn of the millennium, the one on the myth of Icarus stands out as a powerful metaphor for the human condition.
In addition to paintings and works documenting his original extra-pictorial experiments, the retrospective – the first organised since his recent death – also presents the two videotapes Metagrafica (1977) and Verde carminio (1983) produced by the Centro Video Arte di Palazzo dei Diamanti directed by Lola Bonora.
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