Vanni Rocca

I am deeply interested in the hidden emotions within the human being. I am not concerned with the perfect description of reality, I pay less attention to what the eyes faithfully report, but rather to what the gazes reveal and the faces conceal.

I am in search of imperfect beauty, to portray it in an essential way, with filtered colors, veils, and thick layers of paint that settle upon broken, fragmented lines. I believe it is precisely in these small details that little fragments of our soul dwell and remain entangled.

Self-taught artist whose work falls within the canons of tonalism.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 - MY SARDINIA - SENNORI
Held at Casa Sisini exhibition space, the exhibition offers a vision of Sardinia in an essential and evocative artistic style, close to black and white. The exhibition presents a very personal view of the artist's dearest traditions of the island: traditional costumes, Mamuthones masks, and horses.

2022 - SARDINIAN EMOTIONAL PAINTER - SENNORI
Displayed within the premises of Casa Sisini, the exhibition showcases the work developed during approximately a year of slow traveling on the roads of Western Europe, demonstrating both a new approach to portraiture and a steadfast connection to Sardinian tradition.

2022 - ARTISTIC ROUTE - SASSARI
An exhibition presenting the Artistic Route project series developed during approximately a year of slow traveling on the roads of Western Europe.

2021 - MASTROS - SASSARI
Presented within the spaces of Arte Spazio gallery, the exhibition pays tribute to the great Sardinian painters of the 20th century, offering personal interpretations of works by Delitala, Floris, Ciusa Romagna, Biasi, and Figari.

2019 - SARDINIAN COSTUMES - SENNORI
Displayed within the premises of Casa Sisini, the exhibition presents a series of artworks representing, in a modern...