The stones, meteor fragments and geodes that inspire Sanna are among the most fixed and motionless things we can think of; yet, the artist takes on the challenge of weight and inertia so as to capture, even within these apparently most static of forms, that vital essence of movement, which is in fact his imagination’s […]
On the crowded contemporary artistic scene, the latest generations appear ever-increasingly invested with a globalyzing intention which results in homology and makes any expression conform to fashionable stereotypes. Sandro Sanna constitutes a rare and peculiar exception to this; an artist, we could say, against the mainstream. From Sardinia, his native land, he arrives in Rome […]
Sandro Sanna is a contemporary artist whose paintings don’t fit comfortably into any of the contemporary trends. This doesn’t mean that he is stricken with a deep nostalgia for a golden age of art or that he is trying to revive a familiar style, because he isn’t. His art is very much of this time, […]
(In Sandro Sanna “Metallica” – Cam Editrice catalogue, Rome 2003) Seduced by some of Sanna’s works, I ask him which is the origin and the meaning of “Lo specchio dei pianeti a uno a uno” (The mirror of the planets one by one) and “L’inno notturno della roccia” (The nocturnal hymn of the rock), or […]
(In Sandro Sanna “Metallica” – Cam Editrice catalogue, Rome 2003) The works of Sandro Sanna delight the viewer with images where the theme of reflexion and the mirror effect are taken to the limits of their possibility to create illusions, where the light turns into a relentless “medium” of a repeated illusion to the expense of […]
(In Sandro Sanna “Bisanzio” – solo show catalog, Giulia Gallery, Rome 1994). Beyond theoretical strictness: beyond tautological ostentation of elementary traits of painting (color, sign, surface): beyond painting in order to study painting. And still minimal excitements of the glance, symptoms of the dawn of image, expressive understatement. Surfaces and slender depths grasped by “golden nails”: without […]
(In Sandro Sanna “Cosmogonia”– solo show catalog, d’AC, Ciampino 2001). Cosmogony 2001 is the title given by the author to the imposing installation which dominates the exhibition and which is accompanied by a group of previous works, linked to this work by figures and shapes in closer poetic and imaginative connection. A series of designs recreate the […]
(In Sandro Sanna – Roberto Almagno “La luce oscura della materia” – Primamusa, exhibition catalogue, Carlo Bilotti Museum, Rome 2012). On the slopes of the Janiculum in that part of Rome which rests against the right bank of the Tiber, among gardens, seventeenth-century villas, old monasteries and working-class houses, that part of the city which lies […]