Ángela Ferrari

“The Wild Ones”

Born in 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in Mexico. 

The Académie Conti is a collaborative project between the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and the Consortium Museum.

Exhibition Lead Supports: Asia Pacific Society for Consortium Museum, Daniel Xu & Flora Huang Foundation, Chloe Chiu & Liu Bin, Ouyang Feng, Marguo.

This site-specific commission, which is also part of “Almanach 26,” has offered the emerging artist an ambitious and challenging project as she embarks on a promising career. Through her compositions, in which animal bodies are in a state of tension—dogs baring their teeth, horses  rearing up—the artist conjures a segment of European art history. Her canvases evoke artworks depicting exploits and armed feats as well as idyllic and mysterious wildlife scenes echoing paintings by Douanier Rousseau in particular.
Here, the artist appropriates the codes of Western iconography—in which animal and human realms have long been kept apart—upending them in order to examine the relationship between nature and culture. Ángela Ferrari undermines certain European art historical legacies and reconfigures them; she erases references to academic perspective, enlists a unique chromatic palette, and alters the logic of human domination over the animal world. Through her formal choices and contemporary concerns (animal welfare, relationship to nature, etc.), she revises part of the history of painting, raising issues that have relevance for contemporary audiences.
A thematic and spatial dialogue between the two wings of the Académie Conti unfolds on either side of the main space in the huge paintings—full-blown pieces of pictorial bravura—augmented by a considerable number of small format works with details of horse heads, birds with sharp beaks, and coiled flowers.

This site-specific commission, which is also part of “Almanach 26,” has offered the emerging artist an ambitious and challenging project as she embarks on a promising career. Through her compositions, in which animal bodies are in a state of tension—dogs baring their teeth, horses  rearing up—the artist conjures a segment of European art history. Her canvases evoke artworks depicting exploits and armed feats as well as idyllic and mysterious wildlife scenes echoing paintings by Douanier Rousseau in particular.
Here, the artist appropriates the codes of Western iconography—in which animal and human realms have long been kept apart—upending them in order to examine the relationship between nature and culture. Ángela Ferrari undermines certain European art historical legacies and reconfigures them; she erases references to academic perspective, enlists a unique chromatic palette, and alters the logic of human domination over the animal world. Through her formal choices and contemporary concerns (animal welfare, relationship to nature, etc.), she revises part of the history of painting, raising issues that have relevance for contemporary audiences.

A thematic and spatial dialogue between the two wings of the Académie Conti unfolds on either side of the main space in the huge paintings—full-blown pieces of pictorial bravura—augmented by a considerable number of small format works with details of horse heads, birds with sharp beaks, and coiled flowers.

— Franck Gautherot & Seungduk Kim

Académie Conti
3, rue de la Goillotte – 21700 Vosne-Romanée 
Opening on July 4 from 3 pm to 5 pm

Opening hours: Sundays from 2 pm to 6 pm from July 5 to September 13, 2026. 
Free entrance.