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Ernesto Sartori

BornNationalityBased In
1982ItalienMarseille
Biography

Ernesto Sartori has always conducted his sculpture experiments with a paint brush in hand to revisit form differently — certainly in a more fluid way. He is a painter who uses volumes for his painting needs. Similarly to Uccello, who would build wooden horses to get a better picture of the physical reality of the Battle of San Romano, one could approach Ernesto Sartori's installations as life-size experiments for pictorial compositions that go beyond the model since they do not disappear to give way to painting. The paintings move the sculptures in different spaces and contexts, which are most often imaginary. The science-fiction narrative has always been for him a model for understanding art and the necessity to question simultaneously various realities and thus various media. Ten years later, this interpretation is refuted by the greater autonomy of his painting. The latter has thickened while the volumes are no longer raised as high above the ground, preferring instead to spread as ‘‘fragments’’ that are smaller, consisting of pieces of fabric, of recognisable objects, of supplies, and bits of materials. These installations appear to serve painting, as palettes available to the subtle colourist that he is. It is wonderful to observe what could be called the freedom of the painter: a way of exhibiting his work without expecting any form of museumification of his tools (here, they are tool-artworks) materialising all that comes before and the origins of what we are looking at. Sartori regularly revisits classic themes, such as still life or landscape painting, without separating them. We rediscover everyday objects under the open sky. All the earth has to do is absorb them, but it will likely take longer than the very life of the painting. His paintings and installations are archeological events, situations that are closer to life — and to its broken springs — than to an ideal image. The painting is not merely a lie. It also has the frankness of not suspending time or entangling it. Ernesto’s painting shows us objects that the earth can spit out at any time, solitary things that have nothing to do with the shiny fruits of ancient myths. These objects do not flatter anything, they are in the way. And yet, Ernesto makes them funny and touching like the Harlequin costume. He organises and creates colour gradients in his installations, he dissolves objects within his paintings, like this piano that is invisible when looking at it closely and yet well present — a sheet of paper placed on its lid and about to fall on the floor. As we stare — in a blurry state of mind — at the things that are before us, it is sometimes possible to see particles, a light rain shower beating down, in an unreal way, on what surrounds us. Painting is thus something that is both dead and alive, which tenses up our eyes, makes our vision more powerful, whilst participating in the fall and the birth of worlds. ...

Selected Artworks
Ameba-01 3D
Ernesto Sartori
Ameba-01 3D, 2017
60 x 76cm
Aménagement quadripartite
Ernesto Sartori
Aménagement quadripartite, 2014
40 x 56 x 1cm
Cavolo automatico
Ernesto Sartori
Cavolo automatico, 2020
122.2 x 150.3cm
creposcoli spongiunti
Ernesto Sartori
creposcoli spongiunti, 2018
27 x 37.5 x 2.5cm
EMme emME
Ernesto Sartori
EMme emME, 2018
36 x 40 x 1cm
I ghiocci
Ernesto Sartori
I ghiocci, 2018
61 x 122cm
In-ves-ti-gaz-ione
Ernesto Sartori
In-ves-ti-gaz-ione, 2020
40 x 40 x 1cm
O. et toi
Ernesto Sartori
O. et toi, 2015
60 x 40 x 1cm
Rythmique ambiante
Ernesto Sartori
Rythmique ambiante, 2014
50 x 40 x 1cm
Super Pangea 04
Ernesto Sartori
Super Pangea 04, 2013
70 x 100cm
Temporalité cosmétique
Ernesto Sartori
Temporalité cosmétique, 2014
50 x 40 x 1cm
Terrasses partitionnées
Ernesto Sartori
Terrasses partitionnées, 2014
60 x 50 x 1.5cm
Titolo ammobigliato
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo ammobigliato, 2020
31 x 30 x 0.8cm
titolo che si legge
Ernesto Sartori
titolo che si legge, 2020
29.5 x 31cm
Titolo circondato
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo circondato, 2020
39.5 x 59.6 x 0.7cm
Titolo da trovare (si é perso)
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo da trovare (si é perso), 2020
57.7 x 88.8 x 1.5cm
Titolo in corso
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo in corso, 2020
28.7 x 32cm
Titolo nascosto
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo nascosto, 2020
32 x 35.7 x 0.7cm
Titolo occupato
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo occupato, 2020
30 x 30 x 0.7cm
titolo piano
Ernesto Sartori
titolo piano, 2020
61 x 105cm
Titolo stanco
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo stanco, 2020
122.2 x 164.4 x 3cm
Titolo visitato
Ernesto Sartori
Titolo visitato, 2020
17 x 17 x 2cm
Tobl
Ernesto Sartori
Tobl, 2018
17.5 x 40 x 2.5cm
Tutto é zuppa
Ernesto Sartori
Tutto é zuppa, 2020
28.5 x 32 x 0.6cm
Tartariente P4
Ernesto Sartori
Tartariente P4, 2022
60 x 60 x 3cm
Trantorizzato C17L35
Ernesto Sartori
Trantorizzato C17L35, 2024
78 x 80 x 4cm
Bosporoso P8
Ernesto Sartori
Bosporoso P8, 2023
60 x 60 x 6cm
Trantorizzato C50L119
Ernesto Sartori
Trantorizzato C50L119, 2024
45 x 50 x 5cm
Trantorizzato C_3L34
Ernesto Sartori
Trantorizzato C_3L34, 2023
47 x 42 x 2cm
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