For the first time in Italy, an exhibition of collages by the Franco-American artist

Sauzey, the World in Pieces

Her most recent works accompanied by a poem by Silvia Bre

A WORLD OF PAPER

Two images from works by the Franco-American artist Anne D. Sauzey, on display until May 4. These are collages and paintings exhibited for the first time in Italy and accompanied by a poem by Silvia Bre, who writes about Sauzey’s work:

“Every day the world falls to pieces, and every day someone gathers the pieces and glues them together so that there may still be a world.”

For the first time in Italy, the collages and paintings of Anne D. Sauzey are being exhibited, accompanied by a poem by Silvia Bre.

Following the success of the first stage of “Carta” (“Paper”), which featured until April 13 the graphic works of Angelo Bianchi and the words of Francesco Piccolo, the series of exhibitions dedicated to paper now continues.

Anne Sauzey, a Franco-American artist who for many years has painted using pieces of colored pages cut from magazines, has recently added to her work an explicit reference to books, to the concrete and material nature of objects. Her collages now include covers, spines, and bindings of books, which take on varying importance each time they are juxtaposed with other assembled fragments.

The result is a celebration of paper in all its forms. This approach allows one to draw an analogy between Sauzey’s work and contemporary poetry: her collages, too, are spaces to be crossed in a journey of the eye that continually shifts from the particular to the overall view. Yet there is nothing random about the arrangement.

In the rooms of the Casa delle Letterature (“House of Literature”) there are also some large-format paintings. Accompanying visitors through these original worlds made of pieces, scraps, and fragments, each time recomposed into a different form, are the words of Silvia Bre.

“Every day,” writes Bre about Sauzey’s work, “the world falls to pieces, and every day someone gathers the pieces and glues them together so that there may still be a world.”

L. Col.

CARTA: HARMONY IN FRAGMENTS

Until May 4 at the Casa delle Letterature, Piazza dell’Orologio 3, telephone 06.68134697.

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