Inside the event Winter magic , the Montblanc Prize will be awarded, a recognition of the creativity and ingenuity of the city of Nuoro, which involves the annual selection of two representative personalities. The ceremony, which will take place on November 7th at 5pm at the Regional Ethnographic Institute, will be followed by the inauguration of Vincenzo Satta’s exhibition at the MAN museum.

Satta’s research develops starting from geometric shapes to reach, over the years, freer solutions. After a first phase influenced by research in the informal area, and a second in line with the climate of analytical painting, within which the artist identifies an autonomous path of great rigour, in his more mature production the geometric shapes give way to curved lines and wavy shapes and the attention is still focused, as always, on the central role of light.

The unpublished works on display at MAN belong to this last period. Canvases structured on light and evanescent tones, yellow, pink or blue, in which the painting is lightened by blurring that transforms the timbre, attenuating it. The light of these surfaces is therefore not obtained through the use of color, which almost transcends its materiality, but through infinite veils that condition its perception.

Modulated by the changing emotional inclination of the artist, the light is not enhanced and projected outside but, on the contrary, captured and almost hidden in the succession of the different phases of creation of the painting, caught in its last possibility of being, stopped a moment before it goes out.

Born in Nuoro in 1937. He attended the Art Institute of Sassari in the Architecture section with Stanis Dessy and Vico Mossa. In 1961 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. His work develops over fifty years of activity, from the first solo exhibition in Bologna in 1966, with a presentation by Andrea Emiliani, up to the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2011. He lives and works in Bologna.