My name is Néstor Ferronato. I was born in Argentina on August 16, 1955.

I come from a mixture of Italian Piedmont and Venets, (hence my surname), emigrated in South America, in search of a better life.

In Rosario, I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. I was a good student in drawing and painting, less in the incisions and very bad in the sculpture (a discipline that today I still hate although some people think that my works can be easily translated into a three-dimensional key).

ABOUT MY PAINTINGS
(Critic Award Galleria Eustachi 2008 by Ester Foglia - Milano - Italy

Interesting and highly personal, from the iconographic point of view, is the path of Néstor Ferronato.
From the first works, essentially figurative, he arrives at that dynamic conception typical of futurism in which everything merges and divides, interpenetrates with other parts, turns into simultaneous visions, composed of surreal particles.
While not giving up figuration, the Italian-Argentine artist Nestor Ferronato uses the fragment to make everything, the detail - endowed with a life of its own - intertwines with other independent details: an image in the image, idea in the idea.
In his recent works, even the colours become more vivid, more decisive and more detailed, marking the line of demarcation, without second thoughts, between one figure and another, between one subject and another, between one symbol and another.
Yes, because "symbolism" is the ultimate figure of this painter, used to propose strong themes, but offered to the viewer through a formal and colouristic lightness.
To explain it with the words of Klee, Ferronato's works remind us that the man is half a prisoner and half winged.

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