Monica Sarandrea

Rome (00), Italy
15 works

Sculptor of Italian origin, Monica Sarandrea creates works in search of a personal link to nature and its spiritual dimensions.

From informal art to abstraction

Born in Rome, Monica Sarandrea has devoted herself to drawing and in particular, to landscape painting. After several stays in Paris from 2005 to 2010, she enroled in classes taught by Alberto Parres at La Porta Blu Art School.

Sarandrea has worked with chromatic and gesture painting, gradually moving towards informal art and abstraction. From 2011, she has devoted herself to sculpture, focusing on materials such as stone, clay and plaster.

Creating a dialogue between nature and its elements

Monica Sarandrea’s works are the result of a dialogue with nature and its elements, in particular, water and land, which are intimately linked to femininity. This research evokes a certain biomorphism, halfway between the animal world and that of human beings.

Poetry, in particular, French symbolism, plays a crucial role among his sources of inspiration, on the same level as oriental philosophies imbued with animism.

2005-2010: Training with painter Alberto Parres with La Porta Blu Art School

2011-2013: Stone carving courses on the Greek island of Thassos.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS :

2018: "Tutte d’un pezzo", Palazzo Chigi, Formello

2017: "Evidenti omissioni", Villa Sarsina-Corsini, Anzio

2016: "There’s no place for my mind", Spazio Marte, Gaeta

2015: "La natura ama nascondersi", b>gallery, Rome

201 4: "Frammenti di una ricerca", Spazio Interiore, Rome

2013: "Pensieri as an allodole", Creative Room Art Gallery, Rome

2012: "Drunk Boat", Galleria Il Laboratorio, Rome

2010: "Lirica/mente", Galleria Il Laboratorio, Rome

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 : Artcevia International Art Festival, Arcevia

2018: Artbox Project New York 1.0

2017: "Seduzioni", Elle Galleria, Preganziol / "Diritti in transito", Ex-Dogana, Rome / Settima rassegna di arte contemporanea, Ca’ dei Carraresi, Treviso

2016: "Mostri&Eroi", Centro Culturale G. Ferri, Rome / "Rebirth", Womart, Rome

2015: Collettiva di pittura e scultura, Creative Room Art Gallery, Roma / Concorso "Amnesty è...", Sezione italiana di Amnesty International, Rome/ "Il cielo in una stanza", MICRO Arti Visive, Rome

2014: "Beauty and the beast", RvB Arts, Rome / "Spacescape", Oratorio della Confraternita del Purgatorio, Ostuni

2013: ArtePadova - Creative Room stand

2012: Vincitrice del Contest Creative Room, Rome

2010: "Pasolini, cittadino di Monteverde", Museo della "Villa Vecchia", Villa Pamphilj, Roma

2007: collettiva "Supermart: arte al cm quadrato" with Arch Art & Jewels.

2006-2009: group exhibitions at La Porta Blu Gallery.