Claudio Sardo - Hay Bales

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

Artist Claudio Sardo is the protagonist of a rather eclectic pictorial production, both in terms of subject matter and style. His language is essentially figurative, but he makes slight expressionistic deformations that shift reality to a more lyrical and poetic plane. Even in this countryside view, we can see how objects are synthesized by a light touch that almost empties their forms, revealing their fragile and insubstantial structures. Thus, the bales of hay take on the strongly geometric appearance of perfect cylinders, while the field is traversed by a regular grid of crisscrossing black lines. Everything takes on a strongly essential aspect, and the representation of the landscape transcends nature itself to acquire a symbolic value. The color scheme also undergoes the same process of synthesis, emerging in a highly elaborate brushstroke of broad layers of color.

Claudio Sardo was born in Cuneo in 1951. He began exhibiting in 1977, both in Italy and abroad. His pictorial research has led him to develop a pared-down, almost flat, language rooted in the Italian tradition of Giotto's painting and its reinterpretation by Carlo Carrà.

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