Ferruccio Gard

Emotions in Optical

2005

Ferruccio Gard is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colors, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colors. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes, Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colors. Gard's work has been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets and art curators such as Jorge Amado, Andrea Zanzotto and Paolo Ruffilli. For 30 years, Gard has participated in many solo and group exhibitions with the art group focused on Neo-Constructivist and Kinetic art called Verifica 8 + 1, founded in Venice-Mestre in Italy by painter Sara Campesan in 1978. In the 80s, Gard continued his research on the psychology of visual perception and the theory of form and on the relationships between light, space and chromatism, in 1987 he explored the abstractionism of the new geometry and, in the 90s, he investigated abstract-informal painting. Gard has participated in more than 150 solo exhibitions in many cities around the world including Beijing, New York, Prague, Brussels, Salzburg and Lienz (Osterreich), Remagen and Saarlouis in Germany, Cordoba in Argentina, Venice, Rome, Florence, Milan, Verona, Padua, Turin, Bergamo, Cortina d'Ampezzo. Gard was involved in seven editions of the Venice Biennale of Art and at the 11th National Rome Quadriennale. Gard's work has also been exhibited at several international museums including the National Gallery of Modern Art of Prague in the Czech Republic, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome in Italy, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires in Argentina and at the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art of La Plata in Argentina. His works are also found in important public and private collections, including the, Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice, Italy and the Satoru Sato Art Museum in Japan.