Fernando Farulli

Fernando Farulli was a painter of realism, of factories, and of the “builders”—those men who wore the masks of welders on their faces and who did not shy away from metaphor. These men, in fact, were the builders of a free and just future. However, it would be unfair to the artist not to add that his painting was also imbued with an intimate, lyrical vein, and, in his later years, a critical one: critical not only of the artist himself but also of those, like him, who had established the equation between worker-builder and factory-future. Fernando was a passionate painter with a strong hand, capable of rendering factual reality and projecting it into an abstract and absolute truth: the time for the victory of the “builders” would come, the present would not last forever, and the contingent would not have the final say.