by Ettore Ceruti

«I believe there is no better way to define Marchetti’s pictorial works than as a wonderful travel through the infinite facets of the soul. He always succeeds to communicate, in a well-balanced and harmonious spatiality, a deepness of feelings. Through gentle, warm, fervent tones that create an aura of pure poetry, these feelings are expressed with lovingly and, we shall say, religious nuances. The observer is struck by the vigor of the ideas expressed that seizes the senses and gives a tangible guise to the ghosts of imagination. There is a continuous effort aimed at weakening and pulverizing colors in order to impose the construction and the display of an endless array of sentiments and wonderful beauties, that from the eyes descends into the soul restraining any temptation for effect or chromatic excess. His painting style is born out of trouble, out of the yearning for absolute pureness...».