Eleonora Santanni was born on 30 December 1964 in Montemurlo (Prato), in Tuscany. On her mother’s side, she comes from a dynasty of “seamstresses for women”. She is an autodidact and expresses instinctive and personal creativity free of artistic preconception.
In her art, poor natural or recycled materials, such as newspapers, leaves, textiles, bark, and so on, meet with powerful and sacrilegious colors, which are the trademark symbol of her whole production.
Santanni’s aesthetic and narrative itinerary is dedicated to her personal experience as a woman, in particular to the psycho-physic rehabilitation process she had to undergo after her breast cancer.
The woman’s body represented in her artworks is energetic and clumsy, a “contemporary Venus” who shows her scars as badges of honor, as the symbol of the never-ending fight for life, love, and beauty.
2021
Palea. la Scultura
La Rocca di Sala
Pietrasanta
2020
Prato
2020
Le Scapate. God Save Me!
Lu.C.C.A. Lucca Center of Contemporary Art
2020
ArtInsolite. Distanza Zero
Lajatico
ELEONORA SANTANNI
ele.santanni@gmail.com
