• In celebration of the Year of the Horse, Marguo is delighted to highlight a selection of small-format oil paintings by Argentinian artist Ángela Ferrari. These intimate compositions honor the horse as a vibrant symbol of vitality, determination, and forward momentum.
     
    Drawing from her practice of deconstructing and reimagining classical pictorial traditions, Ferrari’s equine studies capture a unique balance of raw strength and refined elegance. These works invite viewers to find a moment of reflection and embrace the spirit of possibility in the year ahead.
  • Ángela Ferrari, What about dreams in which you can ́t escape?, 2024

    Ángela Ferrari

    What about dreams in which you can ́t escape?, 2024
    Oil on linen
    80 x 60 cm (31 ½ x 23 ⅝ in)
    83 x 63 cm (32 ½ x 25 in) framed
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  • Rather than presenting the horse as a straightforward emblem of power, Ferrari utilizes the figure to destabilize our perceptions of authority and control. The image of a horse facing imminent death has long stirred collective empathy—from the visceral agony of Picasso’s Guernica to our shared cinematic memory—revealing how deeply humans project emotion onto the animal form.
     
    Within her small-format oil paintings, Ferrari uses this empathy as a lens through which hierarchies of dominance and vulnerability are reconsidered. By complicating the relationship between human and animal, her work transforms the equine form into a space for sensitive ecological reflection.
    • Ángela Ferrari Las palabras de la vigilia, 2025 Oil on linen 15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ in)
      Ángela Ferrari
      Las palabras de la vigilia, 2025
      Oil on linen
      15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ in)
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    • Ángela Ferrari Last Coquelicot days, 2025 Oil on linen Diptych, each : 60 x 60 cm (23 ⅝ x 23 ⅝ in)
      Ángela Ferrari
      Last Coquelicot days, 2025
      Oil on linen
      Diptych, each : 60 x 60 cm (23 ⅝ x 23 ⅝ in)
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    • Ángela Ferrari Dripping landscape, 2025 Oil on canvas 15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ in)
      Ángela Ferrari
      Dripping landscape, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ in)
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  • Ferrari explores the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with visceral antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless.
     
    By deconstructing classical European hunting scenes and masculine displays of pride for a kill, Ferrari interrogates historical narratives of power and submission. Her compositions utilize thematic inversions to complicate the relationship between predator and prey, reframing this Western tradition as a profound space for ecological and sensitive reflection.
  • Ángela Ferrari, Sea-like sinking, 2025

    Ángela Ferrari

    Sea-like sinking, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    15 x 80 cm (5 ⅞ x 31 ½ in)
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  • Ángela Ferrari, The never ending hiding, 2026

    Ángela Ferrari

    The never ending hiding, 2026
     
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  • About the Artist Ángela Ferrari is an Argentine visual artist born in 1990 in Buenos Aires who currently lives and...
    Portrait of Ángela Ferrari. Photo by James Watkins. © Ángela Ferrari. Courtesy of the artist and Marguo.

    About the Artist 

     

    Ángela Ferrari is an Argentine visual artist born in 1990 in Buenos Aires who currently lives and works in Mexico City. Her multi-disciplinary practice integrates painting, textiles, and installation, with a primary focus on oil on canvas across both monumental and intimate scales. Rooted in the deconstruction of classical European pictorial traditions—particularly the genre of hunting scenes—her evocative work interrogates historical narratives of power, submission, and control. By engaging with this historically Western and conventional genre, she disrupts its established rules and reframes the canvas as a space for feminist and ecological reflection.

     

    Ferrari reimagines these compositions through deliberate distortions of perspective, chromatic experimentation, and thematic inversions that complicate the relationships between predator and prey, human and animal, or hunter and hunted. Her artistic journey has been marked by significant solo exhibitions in South America, including Aurora at Adhesivo Contemporary and Vértigo at Angstroms in 2024. She has also participated in prestigious art fairs and residency programs such as SOMA, Lugar a Dudas, and Cobertizo.

     

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