In Porto Ercole the first exhibition of young Sara Bartolini, who explores our emotions

From August 17 to 31, 2021, Forte Stella in Porto Ercole, on the Argentario, will host the first solo exhibition Paths in Souls by the young Tuscan artist Sara Bartolini in art Bartò (Pescia, 1985), who presents to the public the series of works that are most introspective and closest to her personal and artistic research. Bartolini tenaciously and thoroughly explores the world of human emotions by means of abstract painting. Oil, acrylic and wax are the main tools with which the artist decides to translate his inner world into matter and vital energy.

The exhibition, curated by Francesca Della Ventura, gives the public a way to explore Bartolini’s works made of explosions of color and light that, starting from the assumptions of color psychology, become play, communication and expression of the artist’s mental and emotional effects. Escapism is presented as the true universal freedom that leads one’s soul to be in a continuous evolutionary state of which Sara Bartolini tries to capture the salient moments: the nakedness of one’s self, the introspection of being, the desire and the universal drive toward interpersonal connections. In the contemporary world where events follow one another quickly, human beings have no time to stop and get to know themselves. Bartò wants to communicate to his audience that the ancestral sense of bewilderment in the face of life’s experiences and trials is something collective.

The artist particularly wanted to hold his first solo exhibition at Forte Stella, a place that has been arousing the awe of visitors for centuries. Symbolically, the fortress on Argentario represents, in Sara Bartolini’s artistic and personal journey, a point of arrival, but also of departure. “Bartò,” Della Ventura writes, “invites those who will have the opportunity to visit her exhibition to embark on the same introspective journey that, by means of the works on display, can lead to a reflection and questioning of one’s place in the world and the meaning of the body/soul duality, as well as to a greater awareness of who one is. If it is true that, as Plato asserted, the soul can only be truly free by breaking free from the captivity of the body, it is equally true that painting breaks the bonds with the material world and allows one to perceive both, the soul and freedom.”

Sara Bartolini, after graduating in advertising graphics, devoted herself mainly to following her family’s business, but after a short time she returned to painting, completely changing her style from her first artistic works: the landscapes and portraits of her early years are replaced by abstract and very material works, made mainly in oil, acrylic and wax. Especially the latter element becomes a real “brand” that characterizes the works created in Bartò’s last years: as in an ecstatic dance, the wax castings join the emotions transmitted by the artist’s body and which he brings back to his canvases to transmit them to the observer. Among the latest group exhibitions he has participated in are those in February and March 2021 at the “Il Melograno” Gallery in Livorno and the Hideaway exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa curated by Loredana Trestin. At the end of August she will be present at the second edition of the international contemporary art fair art3f (Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Monaco).

Pictured: Sara Bartolini, The Ghost Within (2021; acrylic and wax on canvas, 110 x 70 cm)

In Porto Ercole the first exhibition of young Sara Bartolini, who explores our emotions

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