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- […] Vos travaux font penser à des palimpsestes, ces manuscrits que leur auteur trace sur un document existant, sans effacer la ou les couches d'écriture précédentes. […] (en)
- […] Anche in quest'ultima occasione Sarra elabora un percorso in cui l'apparente 'ripetizione' dell'opera viene simultaneamente smentita. Il tentativo di dipingere due quadri uguali sposta l'attenzione del pubblico sull'abilità pittorica, la copia, l'indifferenza. Lo sforzo esercitato diventa un 'impegno controvoglia'. […] (en)
- For Sarra, the manual aspect of drawing is akin to a sort of imponderable writing, executed "from life" but detached from any interest in spatial composition; "the color must only be meaningful, not descriptive", and "a painting is finished when it resists the company of the other work in the studio." (en)
- Since the early Nineties, Sergio Sarra has been exploring the iconic nature of painting, to approach things through an abstract comprehension, while also conjuring up ancestral figures: "it would be important for me to be able to make a really archaic drawing, that can be recognized only by one's consciousness, and has never been seen in real life". (en)
- [...] In Sarra ci troviamo di fronte ad una intensa sinteticità dal punto di vista del processo formale a vantaggio di una maggiore concentrazione al dato concettuale… L'animale, i paesaggi e i volti vengono stilizzati fino al limite del riconoscibile [...] (en)
- His home studio project is a clear form that interprets one of the artist's favorite landscapes: a protected space, personal and familiar, that fosters suggestions and ideas, where Sergio Sarra has organized his own painting possibilities. (en)
- Each piece is generated by an observing consciousness, that moves within autobiographical spaces and cultural affiliations, interrelating signs in redundant sequences: architectural antinomies, dualities, border zones, specious repetitions; transparent grids and aporias. (en)
- […] Referencing classicism and employing symbolism in creating his enigmatic vision of the world, Sarra calls attention to the iconic power of the handmade image in Western civilization. (en)
- I am painting icebergs, a series of icebergs. Each of them is a still life drawing, even though it may look like an automatisme. Icebergs are wandering and solitary shapes subject to imperceptible transformation, and they incorporate other shapes and remote images. The submerged part of these ice mountains is almost completely invisible and its balance and flotation capacity is strictly connected to the emerging part. When this ration ceases to exist, icebergs can overturn with deafening sounds, showing the part which has been hidden for millennia. (en)
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