Antonio Sannino: Full of life – di fioriture e altri incanti
Antonio Sannino captures an instant of pure beauty. He makes us live through contemplation. His paintings tell a story that is also one of transformation. Because through it – and with it – we evolve, losing ourselves each day in new “Fioriture e altri incanti” (blossoms and other wonders). The moments in which we reflect on the solemnity of what surrounds us become an infinite instant, Full of Life.
On June 21st at 7pm, in a vibrant solo show at Liquid art system in Capri, Sannino presents his latest works inspired by the Japanese tradition of Hanami – the act of enjoying the springtime blooming of cherry trees – a ritual that becomes both a communal experience and a symbolic gesture. Completing the enchantment are his Mediterranean seascapes: close-ups of sea fragments between emerging rocks, translucent waters, and gentle waves.
Don’t miss the chance to lose yourself in his paintings: among the colors, you’ll recognize beauty and be filled with the wonder of what we call life.
For many years, Antonio Sannino has been enjoying painting the sea pretending to be a figurative painter whilst playing to be an abstract artist: the outcome of his “shining sea” is a shining beauty, and his paintings – skilfully painted on aluminium with a special technique and, for this reason, even shinier – are borderline between the portrayal of water and a game of colours where we can barely recognize the liquid element. Hence, we dive with the same pleasure into the water or into the colour, since they are equally transparent. The same feeling of transparency persists also when Sannino deals with other subjects, like the cities and the woods, preferring a thin and delicate surface, a pop-ish flatness resulting from using a resin able to vitrify oil paint: his metropolises – whose urbanscapes are portrayed at dusk or at night – appear shimmering in the reflections of glass windows, the buildings depicted in chaotic perspectives seem to be in motion, and also the pieces of the sky are the result of a profound vision rather than of a mere reproduction.
