( from the presentation of the anthological exhibition “ Ratio Picta”, Regione Piemonte, as part of the series “ The Living Piedmontese Masters”, Turin, Sala Bolaffi, December 2004 – January 2005 ) ….Gard, from the very outset, from his very first painted optical compositions, has sought nothing other than the Reason...
From the presentation using the solo exhibition “By way of colors and metals” Malcesine (VR), Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Chiesa di San Nicolò e Rocco, August-September 2003. …Gard, Confronted with the sophisticated technological prospects of the multimedia era, the artist doesn’t forfeit the value of expressive emotion despite his awareness of...
(from the presentation of the personal exhibition "La fissione del colore", Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, April- May 2000) Ferruccio Gard’s art offers the most fascinating of traps: the rational frame of his visual discourse serves only as the mooring pole of a " Bateau Ivre", of an endless lyrical hypertrophy. I now...
(from the presentation of the personal exhibition "La fissione del colore", Belluno, Palazzo Crepadona; Cortina d’Ampezzo, Museo d’Arte Moderna "Mario Rimoldi", 1999). It is as if we were invited to admire -but from a safe distance- the infinite phenomenology of volcanic eruptions, or the processes of atomic fusion, or the adventures...
(from the presentation of the personal exhibition "La disarmonica armonia", Rovigo, Pinacoteca Accademia dei Concordi e Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna Peschiera Nuova, May-June 1999) Gard tends to regain the unity of the infinity broken by its necessary division into finite elements, felt as projections of the primitive archè. And so the...
( from the opening of the exhibition “Constructivism”, Aosta, Tour Fromage-Théâtre Romain, November 1988) …Ferruccio Gard’s work offers a rethinking of perspective space using perceptual analysis processes based on instability and energy. It results in an upheaval of the traditional manners of representation, replacing the diachrony of historical perspective with a...
(from the presentation of the personal exhibition "L’Ordine Instabile", Aosta, Tour Fromage, May-June 1998) With Ferruccio Gard the dream of style dwells in his works, interfused naturally by dynamism, which does not however, mear simple abstraction but also the fascination of essentially at the extreme verge of a complex and modern...
...I’m not an art critic and not even a painting connoisseur, but i taste the painting, i feel glad when i discover a new artist whose touches me and makes me feel aware. His colors and the compositions of his paintings really touched me deeply. His painting style is extremely personal, i...
"Ferruccio Gard. Live from the Big Bang", from the opening of the exhibition "Colour Effect", City of Padua, San Rocco Church, June/July 1995 ...
("Corriere della Sera", Milan, 8 November 1992) …The relatively unusual aspect of these works is due to the fact that at the very centre of the geometrical vortex in motion, in what one must suppose is the hub around which the whole composition rotates, the space literally crumbles away in a...