Roberto Ferruzzi Biography
Roberto Ferruzzi is a Venetian painter born in 1927 to a family of artists. He is the grandson of the same name of R. Ferruzzi, the famous painter of the Madonnina. He attended the School of Art in his hometown and also specialized in mosaic with the painter Aldo Salvadori. Since he was a child, Ferruzzi frequented the Pensione Bucintoro, owned by his parents, where he accompanied the painter guests and brought them the paint box for the streets of Venice. In this way he met great artists such as Dufy, Lothe, Marquet, Zuloaga, Blanc, F. Desnoyer. Ferruzzi developed a great love for painting which has never abandoned him. His main teacher was Aldo Salvadori, who was teaching mosaic at the time. Ferruzzi always had very skilled hands and loved clay, color mixtures, mosaic tiles, ancient bronzes and painters' pastes. He also restored furniture and built boats. For him, Venice was an architectural device that had to be organized in a compact way and it was the light that determined this aspect. Ferruzzi is, in fact, the painter of light and this adapts perfectly to the Venetian context. After the war he collaborated for a few years with his antiquarian father, but in 1951 he decided to resume his painting activity and traveled and worked in various cities and capitals of Europe, also working on ceramics. In 1957 he left for South America and lived for three years mainly in Chile, where he produced mosaic and ceramic works for hospitals, churches and public and private buildings. Ferruzzi tried to paint the lives of the poor, malnourished and poorly dressed people he met on the street, at the market or on the buses. His ability lies in commensurate the "wrist" with the "eye" and the eye with the brain, creating quick brush strokes, according to the dictates of ancient Venetian touch painting, where the color is never a filler of the form, but the very substance of the form. Ferruzzi is a great sensitive to color and his artistic heritage comes from the tradition of Titian and Tiepolo.
