Contact
Zanatta Andrea
Via Berna 36
IT-30030 Martellago (Venice) Italy

+39 335 6179403

+39 041 5228258

Andrea Zanatta is living and working in Venice.

Technique
Photograph, Installation, Object

Résumé / Statement / CV
Andrea Zanatta was born in Treviso on the September 3, 1967. Since childhood he has shown a great interest in the world of art. He has visited exhibitions and museums, in an attempt to understand what art is and, above all, what distinguishes a “normal” person from an artist. He wanted to be an artist but he did not feel like one.

Representated by
Artoteque  www.artoteque.com
Art Addiction Medial Museum www.artaddiction.net

Reviews
After his first disappointing attempts at painting, which did not satisfy his thirst to express himself, he was struck by a phrase written by the Spanish writer Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, who says: “The camera lens alone can satiate the thirst for beauty for those who, born artists, have not had the time to practice their art methodically, to the point where they become ‘maestros’ of the paintbrush and the palette.”

This sentence almost seemed to justify Andrea’s inability to paint and gave him the necessary strength to try photography with new and unexpected energy. He thus found in photography the answer to his questions on the subject of “real” art. How can one be original and create a new piece of work and therefore be a “real artist” when everything seems to have already been said, invented or photographed? V. Sgarbi, an Italian art critic says: “a new work of art exists when we see in it a different way of perceiving reality. If we are used to perceiving reality in accordance with certain models, when we discover a new artist we will know that that artist is the greater the more he succeeds in making us perceive reality in a different way: in that variation, however small, resides his poetic vein, his style.” And if style signifies the thoughts of an artist about the world, then Andrea Zanatta is an artist.