Biography
Sara Scaramelli belongs to a generation that doesn't disdain the photographic medium as a scientific support to the more meditative and refined work of oil painting. The starting photograph is an image which has already gone under some transformation processes and stylistic choices (such as the framing, or the choice of a specific lens). The slow operation of painting is for the artist a return to the natural vision of the eye and a search in the realism for the light, even if distorted by the nuances of the digital medium primary reading. A light that sometimes goes into an interior, synthetic and closed, that isn't the protagonist, or that changes the shades of the complexion stimulating the color research, always quite present.
A part of the production is done in pastel and graphite, where the paper has been previously treated and differents kinds of paper have been overlapped.
