The first spider web created by Ferrero dates back to 1989 and was presented at the Serre di Grugliasco. Its diameter measured 6-metres and was placed between two great oak trees. We have to wait until year 2000 to see the second spider web brought to completion in the Parco di Orta, as part as the “Le fil (e) d’Arachnè” project curated by Lucio Cabutti. But it is in 2006 that Richi Ferrero finally starts working at the construction of illuminated spider webs that also involve the invention of the lamp socket designed by Ferrero.
The artist produces a series of works where the spider web, as well as being divided into paintings and triptychs, develops into a composition of light and abstract shapes.

The spider web placed in plain air behaves just as any real spider’s web: it cannot be seen, unless the reflections of daylight partly reveals it, but at sun set, when the work is illuminated by the wood light, it transforms into a luminous spider’s web. Indoors, the work has to be placed on a white wall and the interior light design has to be emitted from a certain number of white fluorescence lights, leaving the wood light lit in proximity of the spider-web by which it will be completely cancelled. Only by switching on the white light will the object reveal all its force and only by this reproduction based on a “there is/there isn’t” effect will the artist succeed in creating the disappearance of the work and its opposite.