Sarita Nanni
I don’t just paint faces.
I paint what pulses beneath the skin.
I was born in Rimini, Italy, where the sea and history shape the soul. I studied at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, then trained in illustration in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati and in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato. My passion for large-scale painting led me to Florence, where I studied the ancient fresco technique.
For nearly a decade, I lived in London, collaborating on handmade ceramic murals and private pools for the Emirates market. Today I work in my studio in Rimini, alongside my sister Catia, creating unique ceramic and wood pieces — and painting what cannot be said in words.
My paintings explore the symbolic power of the face. Each portrait is not a likeness, but a vibration, a map of inner emotion. I work instinctively with a wide range of materials — oil, acrylic, tar, gold leaf, metallic foils, solvents, and whatever the process calls for. I let matter guide me: textures emerge, dissolve, resist, reflect. The surface becomes a ritual site — alive, layered, and emotional.
My artistic philosophy is rooted in experimentation and raw expressiveness. I embrace imperfection, contradiction, and the uncontrolled beauty of the unexpected. This gave birth to my personal language: Grunge Art — a visceral, mixed-media approach inspired by the emotional authenticity of Seattle’s grunge movement. My materials are not passive tools — they are living participants in the creation.
I don’t seek conventional beauty — I seek emotional truth.
My art is a visual alchemy of chaos and control, light and shadow.
Each piece is an invitation: to feel deeply, to see yourself reflected, and to connect beyond appearances.
I also offer commissioned portraits from photographs.
But don’t expect a copy.
Expect something that looks like you — more than you might want to admit.
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Biografia
I don’t just paint faces.
I paint what pulses beneath the skin.
I was born in Rimini, Italy, where the sea and history shape the soul. I studied at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, then trained in illustration in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati and in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato. My passion for large-scale painting led me to Florence, where I studied the ancient fresco technique.
For nearly a decade, I lived in London, collaborating on handmade ceramic murals and private pools for the Emirates market. Today I work in my studio in Rimini, alongside my sister Catia, creating unique ceramic and wood pieces — and painting what cannot be said in words.
My paintings explore the symbolic power of the face. Each portrait is not a likeness, but a vibration, a map of inner emotion. I work instinctively with a wide range of materials — oil, acrylic, tar, gold leaf, metallic foils, solvents, and whatever the process calls for. I let matter guide me: textures emerge, dissolve, resist, reflect. The surface becomes a ritual site — alive, layered, and emotional.
My artistic philosophy is rooted in experimentation and raw expressiveness. I embrace imperfection, contradiction, and the uncontrolled beauty of the unexpected. This gave birth to my personal language: Grunge Art — a visceral, mixed-media approach inspired by the emotional authenticity of Seattle’s grunge movement. My materials are not passive tools — they are living participants in the creation.
I don’t seek conventional beauty — I seek emotional truth.
My art is a visual alchemy of chaos and control, light and shadow.
Each piece is an invitation: to feel deeply, to see yourself reflected, and to connect beyond appearances.
I also offer commissioned portraits from photographs.
But don’t expect a copy.
Expect something that looks like you — more than you might want to admit.
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ITALIA
- Data di nascita : 1974
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- Gruppi: Artisti Italiani Contemporanei

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The Birth of "Grunge Art"
Artistic Philosophy – The Birth of "Grunge Art"
My art is instinctive, visceral, and deeply experimental. I reject perfection and embrace imperfection, mistakes, and the unexpected—because that’s where true expressiveness lies. I have developed my own painting technique, GRUNGE ART, a tribute to the Seattle music scene, a symbol of authenticity and emotional rebellion.
I paint using a combination of mixed techniques, allowing materials to speak to one another in a spontaneous dialogue. Oil, acrylic, tar, and chemical solvents are not merely tools—they are active protagonists in the creative process. The use of tar is not just aesthetic but conceptual: colors represent movement, the lightness of emotion, while tar is the grounding element—tangible, visceral, a sort of counterweight to the fleeting nature of life.
I don’t seek conventional beauty, but emotional truth. I want my art to make people feel something, to evoke a reaction, to create connection and introspection. My approach to painting is physical, direct, often unpredictable—a struggle between control and surrender, between instinct and technique.
Each piece is a map of my inner world, a reflection of my energy at a specific moment in time. Colors clash and merge, faces emerge and dissolve, surfaces transform—as in an alchemical process where art lives, breathes, and evolves.
My art is for those who seek something authentic, visceral, and powerful—something that doesn’t just decorate a wall, but leaves a mark, an emotion, an indelible memory.