Stefano Sanna

My art works are born from a respect for what is already beautiful and then given new life. I use wood, canvas, paper and paint, combined with other industrial and natural materials. I have always been attracted to old walls, crust, rust. My creative process extends beyond “recycling art”, for me, I call my new art direction “Metacycling”.

The materials go through a special metamorphosis through my creative refining and abstraction processes.

When it’s time to embark on a new art piece, it begins with a concrete idea in my mind that I wish to develop with the materials I have found and collected. I rely on the materials’ natural reactions, such as metal rust, mold in natural objects, and the weathering of wood, copper, steel and old paper parts.

Biography
I was born in 1975 in Nigeria to an Italian/Sardinian father and a Swiss mother. I began my art studies in Milan in 1994, majoring in graphic art and design. I worked as an illustrator and comic book artist.
Since 2004, I live and work in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.