Exhibits

“Sara Cafarelli, aka SACAF, artist from Siena. The PS1 (MoMA Contemporary Art Center) owns one of her paintings since 2008. Art is integral part of her life: graphic and interior designer, museum guide, and above all painter. Her works of art are characterized by intense and vibrant colors, and by an intimate and introspective style.

The works presented in this group show possess a peculiar dichotomy; they express a disquieting quietness. Like in a mirror room, the semantic elements alternate and somehow reverse each other. The quest for the self becomes a self-reflective gesture. The interior gaze metaphor, conveyed by mirrors and water, is strong. The female subject is languidly serene, but its reflected image appears in a deformed perspective. Introspection multiplies the self in multitude and transforms the glossy surface in visionary and sometimes hallucinatory images.”

Review by Lucilla Trapazzo – Art critic from Aalst

The operas are inspired by a pilgrimage that Sara made through the Camino de Santiago. Ultreya y Suseya means let’s go further and higher, it’s a kind of greeting that pilgrims make to each other to give them courage.

During the exhibit opening, a ballet group was dancing with black clothes, using starlights to light up the operas to the Special Future Sound, music selected by Luca Sgarro and Antonio Markì.

After she has conquered the MoMA Museum, the young sienese artist is arrived in her loving city with the personal exposition “Soul MESC”.

The opening day was presented by Leonardo Scelfo, teacher and expert of contemporary art, who showed the ten operas and their sense of freedom, represented with colors and moving subjects.

PHI is the name of SACAF’s current artistic period, inspired by her studies of the Golden Ratio and the mathematical concept developed by Fibonacci.