Sergio Fermariello ^©  

(1961)

Provenance:
Artist's studio, Naples;

Private collection, Naples


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Interrupted the university studies of Natural Sciences to devote himself exclusively to drawing and painting, Sergio Fermariello (Naples, 1961) initially recovers the familiar visual lexicon, in an attempt to capture time and memory. In the mid-eighties the drawing tends to grainy images, loses focus on the object, liquidates its intimate narratives with a forced blow-up, making "the invisible shape and empty the content", as the artist declares.

What remains is a repeated sign, stubborn in its fixation, that continues to scratch the paper by inertia and from which the warrior will emerge, icon that will accompany the work of Fermariello up to the most recent works. Fermariello defines himself as the "writer of a single word" which, starting from the only stenographic meaning of the warrior, he repeats as a mantra, nullifying every other hermeneutic attempt of interpretation. And, in fact, in his work, the sign does not refer to another sign, but repeats itself in its own semantic self-referentiality. Like a Zen monk, the artist cultivates the sign by creating a linguistic short circuit that refers "to the inarticulate cry of the origins and the end of his dialological presumptions", the artist explains.

(Taken from: Sergiofermariello.it)