Sandro Migliarini Exhibition at Oxford House Gallery

London – The landscapes of Sandro Migliarini originate from a long personal experience and intense intermingling with the nature of places. Earth, stones, grass, trees, water, sky, clouds, light, wind are the elements that link one painting to another.

What is described is a solitary nature: wide, open, dominant, and seemingly devoid of any human presence. However, the presence/absence of people is called to mind by the transformation of the river banks and the silence teeming with life that now
animates the paddy field where rice pickers once sang songs of rebellion with their feet in the water, bent down under the big hats.

Even in the uncontrolled growth of plants in the garden, there is the absence of those who once took care of it. In the same way, under the shadow of the old oak tree one can imagine the flow of previous generations.

In the park and in the garden no one walks the path – just visible between the confused luxuriance of thorns – or steps on the green. Under the ancient oak only the crows seem to inhabit the large lawn that separates the giant tree from the houses, kept at a distance once again by a sharp horizontal line of separation between irreconcilable worlds: the green and the built-up.

1) Dispute courtyard (the echo of a scuffle in thunderclouds) 90×150 cm, acrylic on canvas
2) The wind on the rocks (energy, motion, time, transformation). 90×150 cm, acrylic on canvas.
3) Race of dragons (air, skies changing, ever-changing light and reflections in the water). 90×150 cm, acrylic on canvas
4) The abandoned garden (the return to the wild). 90×150 cm, acrylic on canvas.
5) The survivor (loneliness, slowly life defies death, passage of time). 90×90 cm, acrylic on canvas.

Oxford House Gallery
London
17 May at 17:30 until 9 June at 21:30
Sandro Migliarini studied at art school Barabino of Genoa and graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. Has practiced as an architect, he taught art, designed objects, made etchings and engravings of every type, worked as a graphic designer with a satirical newspaper, designed book covers, and painted pictures and objects created for the theater obtaining several awards.

Riccardo Cacelli

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