Sara Spizzichino – Visual Artist working with drawing and painting

Drawing as a practice of memory and transformation

Sara Spizzichino is an italian visual artist whose work explores memory, loss, and transformation through drawing, textile, and performative gesture.
Her practice investigates the relationship between image and absence, often working with fragile materials and acts of rupture and repair.

Selected works

Charcoal drawing of a fragmented landscape emerging through layered marks

Series of drawings exploring transformation through repetition and variation

Abstract drawing composed of dynamic black lines created through repetitive gestures

Ink painting on paper with fluid marks and organic forms

Abstract painting emphasizing gesture and surface through layered brushstrokes

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Artistic approach

Drawing is not representation, but a cognitive and physical act.
Spizzichino’s work emerges from a process of fragmentation and reconstruction, where the image is never fixed but continuously transformed through gesture, time, and material.
Textile, paper, and the mind become sites of memory, where traces are preserved, erased, and reconfigured.

Featured project

Works on perception, surface, and image instability.

This series of oil paintings explores the instability of perception through layered surfaces, where figuration and abstraction continuously shift.
The image is never fixed: it emerges, dissolves, and reconfigures itself through gesture, light, and material density.
These works investigate the tension between recognition and ambiguity, where painting becomes a space of transition rather than representation.

Oil painting with ambiguous figuration emerging through layered painterly surface

Abstract oil painting emphasizing gesture, texture, and material density

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Exhibitions/Projects

Selected exhibitions and participatory works include collaborations with institutions, public art projects, and international drawing initiatives.

Exhibitions

Texts/Writings

A selection of writings on drawing as a form of knowledge, perception, and non-verbal thinking.

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About

Sara Spizzichino is a visual artist based in Italy.

Her work has been presented in exhibitions, public art projects, and international drawing events. She is co-founder of 24H Drawing Lab, a research and educational project focused on drawing as a transformative practice.

Artist bio

Drawing Lab

An intensive drawing experience exploring perception, process, and transformation.

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Contact

For exhibitions, collaborations, and inquiries:

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