S A R I T A Nanni

I was born in Rimini, between salt air, ancient stone, and shifting tides.
My work began in the silence of drawing and evolved through fresco, ceramics, metal, tar, resin, solvents, oxidation, and erosion. Matter became language before style ever did.

I studied at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, continued in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati, in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato, and later in Florence, where I explored fresco techniques and classical surface construction.
Years spent in London brought me into large-scale decorative work, ceramic murals, and custom projects for the Emirates market, deepening my relationship with materials, architecture, scale, and physical presence.

Today I work in Rimini, in a studio shared with my sister Catia.
Painting remains at the center of everything.

Faces recur throughout my work, though resemblance is never the destination. I search for tension, fracture, memory, sensuality, resistance. A portrait becomes a psychological landscape — unstable, alive, exposed.

My process is deeply physical. Oil, acrylic, enamel, tar, solvents, raw pigments, oxidation, metal leaf, abrasions, and accidental reactions coexist on the same surface. Layers emerge, collapse, stain, crack, dissolve, and reb...

I studied at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, continued in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati and in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato. Later, I explored fresco techniques and classical surface construction in Florence.

Bagno di Romagna - Italia Art Gallery
Montelabbate-Italia Municipio
Mantova-Italia Palazzo Ducale di Revere
Rimini-Italia Palazzo del Podestà
Rimini-Italia Sala degli Archi 2
Riccione-Italia Palazzo del Turismo
Rimini-Italia Casa Pomposa
Fano-Italia Ex-collegio S.Arcangelo
Cattolica-Italia Palazzo del Turismo
Cesena-Italia Ex-Istituto Comandini
Vigevano-Italia Studio Avogadro
Fano-Italia Rocca Malatestiana
London-U.K. Serpentine Gallery
Rimini-Italia Luisè Art Gallery
Rimini-Italia Ospedale Comunale
Firenze-Italia Danny Rock
Cattolica-Italia Municipio