Lot 317 - Nadia Ferrante - Loneliness (Figure Study)

Pastels, sanguine, charcoal, and white pastel on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Nadia Ferrante is a contemporary figurative artist, born and raised in Italy. She tries to explore the various facets of the human soul and behaviours in modern society. Fascinated by the human figure and its shape in space, by facial expressions and its representations. She works mainly with dry pastels, oil colours, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.

Education

My artistic education is almost exclusively self-taught. I attended a two-year private drawing and composition course with two teachers from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome during my adolescence.

Group Exhibitions

2025

BFF Modern portraits, Palm Beach Design and Showroom, Lake Worth, Florida

2024

Feminism, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery and 33PA, Online

Eros, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery and 33PA, Online

Micro, Artsy with 33PA and 33 contemporary Gallery, Online

The British Art Prize, OXO gallery, London, England

Love, Artsy with 33PA and 33 contemporary Gallery, Online

2023

Retro, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery, Online

Mujer 2023, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery, Online

Self as self, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery, Online

Al and me, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery and 33PA, Online

NOAPS, Online

Contemporary miniature nudes, Artsy with 33 contemporary Gallery and 33PA, Online

Awards

Grand prize People and figures, International Artist Magazine, first place.

Finalist at the British Art Prize 2024

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

1: Sorority, Study

In this work I wanted to resume the narrative of female freedom from the impositions of patriarchy, already addressed in my work SORORITY, represented by the red ribbon that tightly encircles the wrist of the female hand depicted in the work.

2: Loneliness

In this work I wanted to represent, with the three-color technique, in earth tones, the loneliness of the human being in this modern society, a theme very dear to me and which I often address. The faceless woman from behind is all of us women. I have developed the technique over time and it is particularly dear to me.

3: Study of a female head (neck)

In this work I wanted to represent what fascinates me the most, the shape of the human body in space and all the compositions it can assume, particularly the female one. The charcoal technique is simple, atavistic, but powerful at the same time, because with a single color you can realize every nuance of reality.