Born in 1974, in Canada, Marco Ferrara showed an aptitude for the artistic sector from an early age. He began with drawing, free and geometric, with representations that were sometimes imaginative and others perfectly in line with reality which immediately highlighted his strong technical skills. higher studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he went to Milan where he collaborated with the most important galleries of the 2000s who initially welcomed him among the management staff and subsequently, having discovered his creative talent, decided to offer him the opportunity to exhibit their own works. From here begins a journey that will give him visibility in the most important Italian cities (Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome) and then also abroad and which will earn him many awards. Some early works are found in prestigious salons in "good" Paris but, as sometimes happens, around 2010 he encountered a production "crisis". Inspiration seems to take paths that are too cumbersome, tortuous in form, tormented in expressions and yet, his works never cease to interest. Once the dark years, gray but never black, were over, the turning point came. Marco Ferrara finds and consolidates his own expressive form, he becomes the absolute master of it by aligning himself on two different tracks: the classical vein (see the attention dedicated to it by Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi) lyrical, delicate, at times poignant and the contemporary, formal and conceptual one, concrete in form and highly symbolic, through which it gives life to different cycles of works with lines and colors that lend themselves well to designer furnishings of absolute value. The underlying theme of all his artistic production is total expressive freedom, the linearity of shapes and facial features, without excess, clean, without any descriptive load, yet full of the highest and profound meaning. His sculptures mirror the soul of a man and his torments, his humility and extreme complexity capable of transforming the raw material into a work of art, through the skilful touch of his own hands.
