Piero Sadun Biography
Piero Sadun was born in Siena in 1919 and spent his youth between his hometown and Florence, early experiencing his passion for painting. He was expelled from high school due to the racial laws and graduated as a private student. In 1943, having escaped from the anti-Semitic raids, he became a partisan and took refuge in the mountains of Arezzo. After the war, he moved to Rome, where in 1945 he made his debut in a group show together with Scialoja and Stradone. Two years later, Ciarrocchi joined them and with their collaboration he was exhibited at the Galleria del Secolo in an exhibition introduced by Cesare Brandi.
His painting, defined as "off the beaten track" by Brandi, is full of memories that date back to Van Gogh, Scipione and Soutine, dense with material spread in brush strokes that run across the entire canvas in a whirlwind, as can be seen from the former, the evenings of Portraits of Don Luigi', from '46-'47. In 1950, he exhibited for the first time at the Venice Biennale, which dedicated a solo show to him in 1960.
In the following decade, he made Morandi's lesson his own. In 1960 he entered his last artistic season, characterized by a definitive abstract technique. In fact, Sadun first recovers the dense material fragmented by the gesture of his beginnings, and then dedicates himself to silent and refined chromatic drafts, tending towards monochrome. He died in Siena in 1974.
