Sandro Negri

Italy, 1940

Sandro Negri was born in 1940, in the province of Mantua.

The tenacious relationship that he establishes with the rural atmosphere sinks the origins in his childhood and constitutes one of the privileged topics in his entire work. Debutes with a personal exhibition in 1970 and his first monography was published in 1976 with the preface of Dino Villani.

A person endowed of an immediate emotional communicative faculty, Negri is also a versatile artist. In 1991 he receives the assignment to execute advertising manifestos for the film “Vincent and Theo” by Robert Altmann

In 1993 he prepares in Palazzo Ducale of Mantova one retrospective, cured by Eda Benedetti and accompanied by a catalogue published by Electa, and the following year at the Rocca Normanna, in collaboration with the City of Paternò (Catania). In these years he has exposed in private galleries and institutional centres of numerous Italian and foreign cities, such as Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Desenzano del Garda, Verona, San Gimignano, London, Geneva and Lugano, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Goteborg and Helsingborg (Sweden), Malaga (Spain), Nijmegen, Hooghalen and Hélènaveen (Holland), Bordering, Washingtion D.C., Portland and Seattle (USA).