"Sarita POP" Painting

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 rebuild themselves. The painting carries its own history visibly.

My work moves through a personal visual language rooted in erosion, layering, instinct, and emotional tension. Large contemporary portraits, sacred imagery, fractured identities, urban atmospheres, and symbolic figures inhabit the same universe. I’m interested in what remains human beneath performance, beneath control, beneath surface.

I also create commissioned works based on provided references.
The photograph is only the threshold.
The real work begins underneath it.

I want a painting to alter the atmosphere of a room.
To remain present.
To create a silent psychological gravity around itself.

Art, for me, is never passive decoration.
It is presence, vibration, memory, and confrontation.