Antonio Sannino

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.