Franco Sarnari

Was born in Rome on 3 March 1933. Self-taught. He attended a three-year advertising course and in those years he gave the meeting and friendship with Piero Guccione. In 1964 in Rome he formed and organized "Il Girasole", a collective self-managed by artists belonging to different expressive currents. In the span of a few years he participates, among other things, the IX and X National Artistic Quadrennial of Rome, in the XVIII and XXV Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, at the II International Biennial of Young Painting in Bologna, at the Rome Biennale at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, at the "Alternative Current 3" International Review; awarded in Milan, National Award for Painting Ramazzotti.

In 1970 he painted "The sea moves" work of thirtysix square meters (18 meters by 2), which will be at the center of the exhibition "5 years of painting" in the Visual Activities section of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Awarded at the V International Biennial of Art Graphics at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. He exhibited for the first time at the Galleria La Tavolozza in Palermo with Sonia Alvarez, Carmelo Candiano, Piero Guccione and Franco Polizzi with whom he will be a long-standing bond and with them he will be identified by critics as "The Scicli Group". In 1982 he was given a monographic essay written by Lorenza Trucchi edited by Le Nuove Edizioni Valsecchi of Florence. In 1988, at the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo in Brazil, he was given a retrospective and in Venice he was given a room at the 45th International Art Biennial.

Between 1987-89 after the "Backlight" dedicated to Monet and Pollock and the return on the "Frammenti", the cycle of works was born which will go under the name of "Cancellazioni" of which they belong "Flagellation (from Piero della Francesca)", "Ebbrezze", "Church of Santa Maria di Ispica". In 1989 he was professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and in 1994 was promoted the anthology of eighty paintings "Sarnari, works 1957-1994" and shortly after, in 1997, the first comprehensive review on "Cancellations" in Villa Foscarini-Rossi di Stra. He lives and works in Sicily.