Art Beat episode 5: Robyan talk about Sandro Taurisani

Today I went to find a very original and eclectic artist and architect : Sandro Taurisani.

His large and luminous studio immediately welcomed me with a series of very interesting works that in some ways reminded me Escher, so after the conveniences I immediately started with the questions and I asked him how he started: Sandro told me that since a teenager he was impressed by the reading of  “The Garzanti Book of Art Education” wroted by Gavino Polo and Paolo Casadei.

From that moment he began to sketch drawings to fix inspiration and moments. of his life.

 

Crossing different stages of his artistic growth, Sandro has always set just one target: to find the substance without paying too much attention to form, he says:

“You do not have to think of the beautiful or what people may like , even if objectively the image that your instinct tells you is horrible, bad or strange, you have to follow it and get it out, this is also the advice it does to guys who want to take on the artist’s career.

He said to forget the academies that often break the wings of creativity to free their own fantasy following the inspiration of the moment.

A very important figure that led him to art is his dad, perhaps because of his friendship with the painter Enrico Pazienza, Andrea’s father.

Sandro remembers with nostalgia and affection those afternoons at home with his brothers drawing and then simulating an exhibition, hanging the finished works on the wall.

Artist but also architect and designer, Sandro has shown me some furniture made with raw ground (not clay) treated with a process that allows the creation of objects:
“A deep passion for the earth leads us to reflect on the primordial essence of this matter” (Sandro Taurisani and Carlo Pazienza)

Everything is born from the earth (Mother Earth), everything goes back to the earth.
He likes to draw a lot more than writing, through images he can express what he feel insiede more than written words, he also consider himself as an architect very closely linked to nature and close to what is custom – made.

This has  caused  many problems to Sandro  since at university, because his ideas contrast the current taste of great architects, who realize monumental and futuristic works with the same style in every part of the world, without considering what the ancient Romans called the “genius loci”, the spirit of the land.

You can not build the same thing in Paris and in a small village in China: every place has its character and its peculiarity.

A bit like some contemporary art also architecture has moved away from humanity to celebrate himself, in a sort of cold self-referentialism.

Finally i asked him about next projects: he told me that he is struggling to exhibit for sure in northern Italy in autumn and planning a return to Berlin (where he already did a solo exhibition).
Sandro also mentioned some lack of bravery in Italian gallerists and curators who prefer to invest in famous artists rather than take the risk launching emerging artists, something that does not happen in the others countries where they are much more careful and enterprising.
Needless to say  I totally agree with him.