Art Issue #83

Sara Maino (b. Arco, Italy, 1970) is an Italian audio-visual artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director. She’s the author of several international poetry performances and theatrical shows held in Europe, South Korea, and Brazil. She has exhibited sound installations and documentary films in Italy (Rome, Florence) and Germany. As an author and multimedia expert, she worked for Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana in Trento and Milan, the University Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, several foundations and museums. https://www.instagram.com/maino9800/

Artist statement: Entirely self-trained as a painter, her practice stands out against the orthodoxy of modern art in Europe – in particular, the dominance of a single art school. In her drawings and paintings, Sara utilizes natural materials such as charcoal collected under olive trees, larch and chestnut wood branches’ powder, limestone’s grind crystals, azulene oil, soil, pigments, leaves, flowers, to create site-specific paintings that reflect a relationship between the materials and their surroundings. She also uses oil paints, acrylics, pastels, pens, pencils, and watercolor pencils.