Critique by Prof. Salvatore Perticaro of Alfonso Ferrari

"In the boundless itineraries of the Universe, where human mind may shape up in the manner of Leopardi "endless spaces and superhuman silencies", Alfer’s fantastic and eternal stars and planets quietly move on.
Regions of silences and pindaric flights are conceived with extraordinary creativity by the veronese painter and poet, immaterial and fleeing at the gravity of the planet we inhabit, and for this delivered to an eternity that escapes our human time.
Perfect scenes of ideas, hopes, intuitions that only a poet may render explicit. These, created by Alfer, not only have a simbolic role, but also result fashinating because of the concrete beauty that may be contemplated.
Glowing stars, illuminated planets in vivid colours – blue, yellow, green, ochre – surrounded by rings or faint lights of atmospheres allowing to foresee forms of life appear in there.
Human forms are seldom to be seen, but everything leads to the human and from the human everything is subjected to knowledge. Alfer seems to be proposing a journey to the Unknown as to answer the innate need of discovering the misteries sorrounding it. And when the human appears, there he is, lightly soaring in interplanetary flight, ascending from atmospheric light to the immense blue and infinite blue, becoming himself a wandering planet, a protagonist in the life of the Universe.
Alfer’s is an engaded painting, the evidence of a journey of the soul in search of truth throught a meaningful art accomplished with undoubted technical validity." "

Prof. Salvatore Perticaro

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