Sandra Batoni - The Red Bottle

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While in its early days it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality, as it was for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi. And in this work by Sandra Batoni, the reference to the still lifes of the great Bolognese master is evident, in the same use of light and geometry in the representation of reality.

In this work, Sandra Batoni, like Giorgio Morandi, seeks to capture the true essence of things (the noumenon) on canvas, but she does so without departing from the sensory reality (the phenomenon). To this end, she engages in a profound reflection on objects, seeking to capture their most vivid image. In this process, the painter is aided by the light that bathes the composition, leading to a process of reducing the objects until their true essence remains. What remains is an almost diaphanous yet extremely alive and dynamic image, shaken by genuine existential (as well as luminous) vibrations. Another fundamental element, as in Morandi's still lifes, is the formal perfection and balance of the composition, which hark back to the great tradition of Italian painting.

Sandra Batoni was born in Florence in 1953. In 1973, she began frequenting the studio of painter Emanuele Cavalli, one of the founders, along with Fausto Pirandello, Corrado Cagli, and Giuseppe Capogrossi, of the "Scuola Romana." She later became his assistant at the Scuola del Nudo at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where she was appointed full professor in 1997. In 1982, she graduated in architecture from the University of Florence. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Italy and abroad. She passed away prematurely in January 2017.

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