Nostalgique héroïne, 2022

Marc Ferrero  

Marc Ferrero is a French contemporary painter who brings painting into the 21st century by creating the STORYTELLING ART movement:
The movement revolves around 3 basic principles:

The creation of painted fictions with a perfect mastery of oil painting, the manipulation of framing by integrating the cinematographic techniques of storytelling and the fusion of graphics, pictorial movements then become tools in the service of the narrative.
Styles, techniques, pictorial movements, eras are superimposed to compose an overall narrative a work of "storytelling art".
The characters are recurrent, the heroes embody a protest against the dark side of the world.
The heroes form the rebel network the Comitive:

Lisa L'AVENTURA: American banker/monegasque who despite her glamorous appearance is a well-known businesswoman in the heart of the financial center of Wall Street, she is at ease in the trading rooms but also on the red carpet of Cannes or in the front row of the Fashion Weeks around the world. She is the "brain" of La Comitive. She is a Lucky Number. High IQ. Queen of metamorphosis.

Andrew Michael PERCIVAL (DUKE): Englishman, trader for 10 years, he made his fortune, lost everything and disappeared, today he is the most wanted man by the city of London, night poker player and jazz lover, he puts his many talents at the service of La Comitive. Has a mathematical eye.

Marcello Di Cordoba (CELLO): Argentinean, professional polo player, jet setter, raised in a circus, leader of a band of "gauchos". Known in South America for his fight against financial crimes, a sort of modern-day Robin Hood. Master of timing, left for dead after a reprogramming to enter the Fast Life.

The dark side is represented by the World of Acceleration led by Lord True Love.
The nerve center is located in the floating cities which are accessed through a tube interspersed with safe doors.
Its members are part of the Fast Life: multi-faceted beings, lucky numbers, robotic creatures (e.g. monkey droners), banksters: its secret police.

The painter plays with the shots like a film director, mixing genres, techniques and ideas while seeking a point of balance in his paintings that makes his work a moving whole in which the viewer becomes an actor and enters the story through his own interpretation.
Such is the extraordinary power of painting because everything becomes possible, no clear-cut answer is possible.
Everyone will see the imaginary world created by the artist through a different prism, the eye, his internal camera will allow him to feel the scenes differently.
The Storytelling Art creates works in movement in which are involved the mind and the sense of the spectator and it is in that also that this pictorial movement is innovative.
Storytelling Art projects the viewer into a story that he can follow or appropriate.

"I never exhibit my work, I come to tell a story to the public ....
Marc Ferrero