L’Amore La Morte E Il Sogno 2017

Roberto Ferri made this painting called 'L’Amore La Morte E Il Sogno' with oils, laying down bodies in a dark, dreamlike atmosphere. I can almost feel the artist figuring out how to get the light just so. He uses these buttery browns and soft pinks to make the skin look alive, even though the subject is death. I wonder, was he thinking about Caravaggio, another master of drama? I imagine Ferri layering paint, each stroke building up the tension between love, death, and sleep. That arrow piercing through – it’s not just a symbol; it's a painterly gesture. The artist invites us to feel the impact, the connection between pleasure and pain. It's a conversation across centuries, a painter talking to painters, about how we feel our way through life. The way he embraces ambiguity means there’s no one way to read it. It's more like a feeling, a question.