Sandro Negri      Images | Bio


Exhibitions:
Gallery I M A, Seattle, Washington
Robert Thomas Gallery, Orlando, Florida
Villa Trissino, Vicenza, Italy
Palazzo Cavalcabo, Montanara, Italy
Galeria Pinna, Berlin, Germany
Indigo Gallery, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Art 98, Vancouver, B.C.
Europ'art, Geneva, Switzerland
Palazzo Cavalcabo, Montanera, Italy
Venable Neslage Galleris, Washington, D. C.
Galerie Du Cygne, Geneva, Switzerland
Galeria La Cornice
Indigo Gallery, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Palazzo Cavalcabo, Montanara, Italy
Indigo Gallery, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Miart, Milan, Italy
Rocca Normanna, Paterno, Italy
Galleria Accademia, Mantua Italy
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
Galerie Lo Rond Pointe Des Arts, Paris, France
Galeria La Cornice, Desenzano del Garda, Italy
Galeria Masini, Florence, Italy
Galleria Nuovo Aleph

Statement:
Sandro Negri was born in the village of Virgilio in Lombardy, Italy in 1940. He grew up among several generations of peasants in an ancestral farmhouse observing and absorbing the age-old agricultural traditions and rituals. His experiences in Italy's most fertile farm region, the Pianura Padana, provided the themes for his paintings such as the peasant figure draped in a dark "tabarro" in a winter scene, women gathering flowers in springtime, and fields of grain in summer. It is impossible not to be fascinated, transported, and bewitched by his astonishing paintings called by a French critic "joy found again in lost paradise".

Sandro Negri’s most important artistic device is his means to express the Italian culture through painting. Negri’s art reflects the memories of times almost forgotten in the small villages tucked away in the beautiful landscapes of Italy’s past. To him, all things possess a beauty, which he tries to bring out by looking at things as if seen though the innocent eyes of a child. Negri emphasizes the little things about life -- the things that most people take for granted. He paints through the passion of memories, and although his memories come and go, his passion is here to stay.