Franco Sarnari Biography
Franco Sarnari was born in Rome on 3 March 1933. In the period between 1954 and 1957, he attended a three-year advertising course. Sarnari first focused on space, highlighting his specific structural analysis which would become the underlying theme of his artistic production, through different refinements and languages.
In 1964 in Rome, after visiting other artists' studios, he formed and organized "Il Girasole", a collective that represented different expressive currents within itself. His first exhibition was at the La Tavolozza Gallery in Palermo, where he exhibited in a group show with Sonia Alvarez, Carmelo Candiano, Piero Guccione and Franco Polizzi, with whom he formed a bond of long friendship. This group of artists has been identified by critics as "The Scicli Group".
Between 1987 and 1989, after a series of exhibitions called "Controluce" dedicated to Monet and Pollock, Sarnari returned to the "Fragments", and then began the cycle of works entitled "Cancellations", to which works such as "Flagellation" belong. (from Piero della Francesca)", "Ebbrezze" and "Church of Santa Maria di Ispica". In recent years, Sarnari has participated in various meetings and debates in the university and intellectual sphere to discuss issues that are not strictly pictorial, the result of his artistic research.
