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Romano Santarini
romano.santarini@virgilio.it
Via Paronese
20L, 59100 Prato
phone +39-0574-630814
Curriculum Vitae
Romano Santarini was born in Piano del Voglio (Bologna) in 1954.
He attended art school specializing in serigraphy.
He lives and paints in Prato where he teaches silk-screen technique at the
"Leonardo" school of art. For his paintings he mainly uses acrylic
and water colours.
Since 1984 Romano Santarini has taken part in several cultural events and has
organized personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad gaining considerable
recognition.
His works are permanently exhibited at the "Galleria Turelli" in
Pistoia and Montecatini. Romano Santarini's paintings have been purchased by
several Italian and foreign collectors.
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The artist places his paintings in imaginary spaces or opens oriental palaces,
placing mysterious objects at the centre of the painting: a truly inexhaustible
source for esoterics.
Santarini's
paintings successfully depict scenes reminiscent of a great artistic period and
the reason of his success is perhaps because we see that - at such a
demystified moment in time that allows no secrets - science and research are
ready to break any code even if this can have disastrous consequences....
Ly Dreher
.... Santarini knows all these things very well but continues repeating them to
himself so that his imagination never fails him whenever, with watercolours or
acrylics, his talent re-proposes on canvas the silence, serenity and
disarranged order of his visions, invented regardless of any logic. And since
in dreams protagonists - whether people or objects - almost always have a
realistic feature that makes them believable, Santarini transcribes them
photographically the way Dalì or Magritte did, though persuing the surrealistic
ideal to which the existence of reason is unknown....
Tommaso Paloscia
... Romano Santarini moves effortlessly, giving the illusion of perfection,
from some unknown centre which is certainly not the mind but which is most
definitely a centre, a centre connected with the rhythm of the entire universe
and, consequently, as real, solid, irremovable, durable, rebellious and
senseless as the universe itself.
Art teaches nothing apart from the meaning of life. Santarini's work must
inevitably be obscure except to the very few who, like the author himself, are
initiated to the mysteries.
Guido
Pintonello