Life-Beauty Suddenly I Feel I
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About This Work
In *Sanna Life-Beauty Suddenly I Feel I*, Pietro distils a fleeting interior sensation into a poised contemporary image, balancing immediacy with formal restraint. Working through layered mark-making and nuanced tonal shifts, the artist builds a surface that reads as both intimate and architectonic—an arena where gesture, erasure, and refinement co-exist. The title’s abrupt cadence signals a practice attuned to the fragmentary nature of selfhood in a hyper-mediated culture, where identity is assembled through memory, desire, and visual noise. Pietro’s approach situates the work within current European abstraction and post-figurative painting, yet its emotional clarity remains singular. At once lyrical and incisive, the piece offers a culturally resonant meditation on beauty as an event: sudden, unstable, and profoundly felt.
About the Artist
Pietro Sanna is an Italian contemporary artist and ceramicist, born in Sassari, Sardinia, and now based in York, England. Originally trained in painting and collage, his practice shifted in 2014 during a degree in Contemporary 3D Craft at York College, where he began experimenting with ceramics as ...
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