Four years later in 2004, a national scandal arose at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, where the artist had his first major retrospective exhibition. Known for his antagonistic political stance and artistic ethics, Ferrari obtained international acclaim when his work was included in the 2000 survey exhibition ‘Heterotopias’ at the Centro Reina Sofía in Madrid. Upon returning to Argentina, he continued to create sculptural works of metal wires and rods before beginning what would become his most iconic works, written drawings on paper and, ultimately, installations, developing an organic style in which gestural forms appear both as abstractions and as explorations of the codes of writing. During his time in Italy in the 1950s, he produced ceramic sculptures stylistically connected to the European abstraction of the time. He explored techniques such as sculpture, painting, drawing, and assemblage to film, collage, mail art, poetry, and sound. Ferrari worked in a wide range of art forms and mediums. At the forefront of pre-conceptual art, Ferrari’s career developed at a time when the question of language was particularly central to Western culture due to the role taken by post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. The exhibition in New York was followed by presentations at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2010 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York inaugurated ‘Tangled Alphabets’ a two-artist retrospective of León Ferrari and Mira Schendel.
In October of 2007, he was awarded the Gold Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
His work can be found in important public collections, amongst others: the Tate Modern, London The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil and the Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Mexico City. Ferrari's work is made up of asymmetrical and amorphous lines as a representation of the critical word and of an external discourse directed towards the centers of mass domination while the poetry of Rachel Valdés is based on an interior dialogue, self-analysis, and the recognition of being in matter.īoth artists intersect at the apex of abstraction, where their works transcend the established visual and spoken languages, and create their own language.įor inquiries, please contact us at Ferrari was trained to be an engineer, but became a mostly autodidactic artist. The works of the artists are related through the language of abstraction and the apparent order of the chaotic elements that compose them. November 17 | Pan American Art Projects is pleased to be invited to participate in Pinta Miami, with the work of León Ferrari (Argentina, 1920 - 2013) and Rachel Valdés (Cuba, 1990), specifically chosen by Gean Moreno for “Intersections”.
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