Greta Ferretti (1996, Rome) is a painter based in Venice, Italy.
Ferretti’s works on canvas and paper recount curious stories, paradoxical or absurd facts, all experienced by the protagonists in an apparently unaware form, immersed in a surreal and Kafka-like atmosphere. In her paintings the human subjects seem to search for a possible relationship with the context and with the animate and inanimate objects which surround them.
Evidently aware of the power of silence, in her work on paper or canvas, Greta Ferretti expresses a strong narrative tension and an intense psychoanalytical load.
The sense of suspension is reinforced by a careful composition, by a dry and restrained style dominated by liquid and evanescent colours (often made with the use of watercolors or ink).
Greta Ferretti (1996, Rome) is a painter based in Venice, Italy.
In 2022, she graduated in Paintings and Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Same year she received the third prize award in the 104ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice.
The artistic research that characterizes her paintings is linked to a narrative fabric that draws on a personal catalog of circumstances, real and imaginary places, people and destinies. Elements, apparently lacking any specific relationship, are gathered together: via a sort of chromatic prism the scattered sense of a dreamlike, sometimes enigmatic, tale appears. Illuminated by an intimate beauty that cannot be concealed by any deformity, figures -introspective and pathetic - are bonded together by the complex forces that shape them and by the tension required to break free. Things and animals participate: their clarity gives rise to hybrid forms which explore the infinite possibilities of transformation in experience and memory.
Her works were exhibited at Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venezia (2022); Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre (2022); D302, Venezia (2021); Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno (2021); RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Manzano (UD); Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre (2021).
(b. 1996, Rome, lives and works in Venice)
EDUCATION
2022
MA with honours - Painting and Visual Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, IT
2019
BA - Painting and Visual Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, IT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Io è un’altra (with Chiara Calore), curated by Daniele Capra, D302, Venezia
GROUP SHOWS
2022
Extra Ordinario Workshop, final exhibition curated by Daniele Capra, Nico Covre, Nebojša Despotović and by Atelier F, Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre
Nelle selve non più belve, group shows curated by Daniele Capra, Isabella and Tiziana Pers and by Atelier F, Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre
2021
Premio Combat Prize 2021, group exhibition by Paolo Batoni, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno
Extra Ordinario Workshop, final exhibition curated by Daniele Capra, Nico Covre, Nebojša Despotović and by Atelier F, Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre
Nelle selve non più belve, group shows curated by Daniele Capra, Isabella and Tiziana Pers and by Atelier F, RAVE East Village Artist Residency in collaboration with Vulcano Agency, Borgo storico di Soleschiano, Manzano (UD)
AWARDS
2022
Third prize winner, 104ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Gallery of Piazza San Marco, Venezia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
External tutor at the chair of Professors Carlo Di Raco and Martino Scavezzon at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
WORKSHOPS
2020/2022
Extra Ordinario Workshop, curated by Daniele Capra, Nico Covre, Nebojša Despotović and by Atelier F, Vulcano Agency, Venezia Mestre
2016/2019
Painting Workshop, Summer school: Atelier F Laboratorio Aperto, Forte Marghera, Venice IT. Organized by the Venice Academy of Fine Arts with the partecipation of Professors Carlo Di Raco, Miriam Pertegato and Martino Scavezzon.
Selected Artworks
