Maurizio Camerani (Ferrara, 1951), graduated in Sculpture at Bologna’s Accademia di Belle Arti e Dams, lives and works in Ferrara. He started off as a video artist, handling electronic art and realising sculptures made up by solar panels. He achieved international fame thanks to the important video art fairs he has taken part, such as Montreal’s in 1984 and Locarno’s and Cologne’s in 1985. He exhibited at the XII Quadriennale Nazionale D’Arte (1996) and during “La coscienza luccicante” (2001) at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni. What emerges in his works, through ritual and alchemic forms, are the energies hidden in human soul. His education as a video artist makes him perceive the video as a warm medium and sculpture as a cool medium. These both are means of expression that, in some of his works, Camerani uses synergistically. An example could be the piece Altrove (2008), shown at the MLB Home Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Mirò. La terra, occurred at Ferrara’s Palazzo dei Diamanti: Camerani’s great overturned equilibrist made by clay, on whose feet is placed a video showing an hypnotic dance that starts from ground but is pointed to the sky, recalls a reflection concerning the eternal succession of life and death that can be observed in the work of the Catalan artist. The latest installations the artist realised are associated through a consideration concerning the theme of humankind roots and the necessity of a universal spirituality, felt as the one and only safety net in a world characterized by precariousness.

Marcello Carrà is born in Ferrara in 1976. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Ferrara. He is an artist specialized in drawing with Bic pen in great dimensions (some as long as 8 metres): he surprises with his extraordinary ability of drawing, which is matched with a strong conceptual aspect imprinted on the transience of life, the absolute proximity of death, on fragility and beauty of this existence, which is also evident in the plaques that accompany the works. All of his works are realized by freehand, using solely a grid. He initially focused on the theme of insects and their ephemeral, and at the same time fascinating, existence. Hereafter, always using the pen technique, created another series of drawings with the theme of transience of existence of sows and pigs, then, thanks to the collaboration with a marine biologist from New Caledonia, a series of works that reflect on the dangers that human activity is driving in the tropical marine life. Recently, Carrà revisited several masterpieces by great artists in history: From Brueghel, reinterpreted in the light of the earthquake in 2012; to Zurbaran and Bosch, with his metaphorical reflections on the moral crisis of our age.
He exhibited in the Gallery Antonio Nardone in Brussels, at the Biennale di Venezia, at ArteFiera in Bologna, at MLB home gallery, Museo di Storia Naturale, Museo Casa Ludovico Ariosto in Ferrara, Broni in Bologna and Villa Nuova Italia in Milan.