Sara
Speri

Sara Speri, born in Verona, graduated as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna after attending the State Art School of Verona.

For Sara Speri, painting has always been an overwhelming need through which to express herself and all the figurative works she has done show it well. The focus of the artist is on the feminine stare and it works toward trying to convey the inner emotions through the state of mind of all her different subjects, their sense of inadequacy, their insecurities, their inner torments or “demons”. The lack of background gives even more intensity to their stares, freeing the observer from all other possible distractions, giving them the feeling the subjects don't actually belong in a real physical space. Sara uses a luminous palette that lays on the anatomic drawing, instilling vitality to the feelings, feelings that seep out through her paintings. A drawing that goes towards the color which expresses itself on the canvas. Expression that impresses itself in her non conventional cuts either on canvas or on wood boards (material that is really dear to the artist), all become means to convey the different states of mind and thoughts that the subject of the painting is going through. Sara's style differs from others in the balance between state of mind and clarity of expression in which the feminine figure becomes a mean. The result that comes out from this kind of style are inner places, houses of feelings that are out of time and space. A "different place" where often water presents itself like a metaphoric element in which the subject is immersed, melts, blends and get confused in, gaining a lightness in which bodies get charged after being enveloped by it. A lightness that also our strongest emotions can reach and acquire. Entering the water immediately leads us to another dimension in which the weight seems not to exist, sounds come to us with a deafening quality, muffled. We don't feel the need of something on which we can lean and so we are free to float in it. But water also means danger, isolation, lack of air, lack of ground, anguish, need of an anchor. This search for lightness, and its opposite, the burden of heaviness, is a path the artist is walking only in a metaphoric way and water is its instrument.