Anna Sogno

Ten years after his closure and more than twenty since the last exhibition at the Gallery Pirra, it's a great pleasure to host once again an anthology, not only commemorative, but rather aims to highlight once again the talent of Anna's Dream.
Born and formed culturally and artistically in Milan, a student of Ropes and Carpi, the painting of Anna's Dream has absorbed the many experiences of the many places of which she was a guest before moving to Turin in 1971.
The exhibition runs through four themes that also correspond to a geographical itinerary: the United States, particularly Philadelphia and Washington, sixties, Burma between 1967 and 1970, the markets of Turin and the flowering meadows of the Piedmont countryside by seventies onwards. It is a process of living and working together, a journey both geographically and in the emotions of an artist who knows how to be a partaker of different atmospheres in which it is immersed.
Anna's Dream is always faithful and true to reality, but, far from being illustrative or photographic, his loyalty is on the painting itself, understood as a transcription of emotions on the canvas. A painting concrete and lightweight at the same time, fast but effective. Reserved, went alone to paint en plein air in search of an authentic and genuine contact with the reality that decided to portray. Aimed to capture its essence, without filters or modesty, making it emerge even less reassuring aspects, such as the desolation of the cemeteries of cars or quote Dino Buzzati, the "cursed provincial sadness of those streets of American suburbia." The power of color emerges forcefully, almost in contrast with the climate of inner poetry, landscapes Burmese: the warm light of the sunset over the pagodas, the crowd in Rangoon and colorful markets. But it is never picturesque views, because the participation of the Dream never fails, and "places" become portraits of situations imbued with life. So it is also subject to Turin, as the multi-colored flower boxes or benches of the crowded market of Porta Palazzo and joyous flowering meadows of the Piedmont plains.
The works of Anna's Dream show, even if it were needed, as the art is not in what subject, but how, and it is clear how much this artist has been able to accept and reproduce on canvas the emotion, even before the vision.

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