Gianfranco Ferroni - Lot with 8 books - 1968-1996

1. Gianfranco Ferroni. Drawings 1959-1990

• Title: Gianfranco Ferroni. Drawings 1959-1990
• Author/Curator: Marco Goldin
• Publisher: Longanesi & C. (Milano)
• Year of publication: 1990
• Number of pages: 138 pages (supported by 98 color and black-and-white plates)
• Brief description: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano, this volume is an extraordinary study of Ferroni’s graphical mastery. It retraces three decades of drawings, from the biting strokes of his early works to the geometric and mystical rarefactions of the eighties.

2. Gianfranco Ferroni - Galleria Mutina (1968)

• Title: Gianfranco Ferroni
• Author of critical text: Giovanni Testori
• Publisher: Galleria Mutina (Modena)
• Year of publication: 1968
• Number of pages: 12 pages (with reproductions of works from 1959 to 1963)
• Brief description: A rare show booklet printed with metal-type in occasion of the Modena solo show inaugurated on 31 October 1968. The precious and passionate introduction is signed by Giovanni Testori, a great supporter of Ferroni’s tragic and carnally realist vision.


3. Gianfranco Ferroni. Works on paper 1963-1991

• Title: Gianfranco Ferroni. Works on paper 1963-1991
• Author/Curator: Marco Goldin
• Publisher: Galleria Bellinzona (Lecco)
• Year of publication: 1991
• Number of pages: 77 pages
• Brief description: Monographic catalog that documents the artist’s paper production (pastels, pencils and mixed techniques) over about three decades. Shows the evolution of his preferred subjects: everyday objects, easels, chairs and cups abandoned in the studio.


4. The icons of waiting. Six unpublished etchings for Giacomo Leopardi

• Title: The icons of waiting. Six unpublished etchings for Giacomo Leopardi
• Authors/Curators: Mauro Bini, Arialdo Ceribelli (with texts by Francesco Piero Franchi)
• Publisher: Coedizione Il Bulino Edizioni d'Arte (Modena) & Galleria Ceribelli (Bergamo)
• Year of publication: 1996
• Number of pages: 32 pages (approximately, exhibition catalog of the graphics folder)
• Brief description: This precious booklet serves as an analytical and critical compendium for the presentation of the famous homonymous folder of six etchings by Ferroni inspired by Leopardi’s poetics. Highlights the harmony between the painter’s inner silence and Leopardi’s poetic infinity.


5. documenta arte varia - Gianfranco Ferroni (February 1974)

• Title: Gianfranco Ferroni : February 1974
• Author/Curator: Galleria Documenta
• Publisher: Galleria Documenta (Torino)
• Year of publication: 1974
• Number of pages: 22 pages
• Brief description: A catalog of fundamental historical importance for Ferroni collectors. Printed on the occasion of the Turin exhibition in February 1974, it marks the absolute turning point of his career: for the first time appear the prototypes of his “silent” and austere rooms, which would become his definitive stylistic trademark.


6. Ferroni (Monographic catalog with atelier on the cover)

• Title: Ferroni
• Author/Curator: Pending verification of internal text (includes introduction by a renowned art critic)
• Publisher: Galleria d'Arte d'Appoggio / Galleria Edizioni d'Arte
• Year of publication: 1985 (approx.)
• Number of pages: 48 pages (approx.)
• Brief description: Catalog focusing on the artist’s mature period of the “Metacosa.” On the cover shows one of Ferroni’s most iconic and poignant paintings: his Milanese studio strewn with jars, rags, a cane chair with a red cushion and a blurred human outline in the background that moves toward the light of the doorway.


7. Gian Franco Ferroni - paintings from 1963 to 1969

• Title: Gian Franco Ferroni. paintings from 1963 to 1969
• Author of critical text: Marco Valsecchi
• Publishers: Finarte / Eunomia (Milano) in collaboration with the Il Fante di Spade gallery (Roma)
• Year of publication: 1970
• Number of pages: 56 pages (approx., including large illustrative plates)
• Brief description: A rare and extremely important historical catalog documenting one of Ferroni’s warmest, most dramatic and socially engaged periods. On the cover sits one of his late-1960s pop-realist works with strong references to international political current events and American presence, analyzed in depth by Marco Valsecchi.


8. Gianfranco Ferroni (Mazzotta / Mudima)

• Title: Gianfranco Ferroni
• Authors/Curators: Texts by various critics (published in collaboration with the Mudima Foundation)
• Publishers: Edizioni Mazzotta / Fondazione Mudima (Milano)
• Year of publication: 1994
• Number of pages: 144 pages
• Brief description: Imposing monographic volume distinguished by the very strong macro-detail of the painter’s green-tinged gaze on the cover. Represents an in-depth study that unites Mudima’s philosophical inquiry into the concept of space with Mazzotta’s masterful editorial craft, covering the artist’s mature production.