"...Santinello’s cosmic fantasies appear painted on huge gauze whose plots [...] retain a magical transparency."
Giovanni Testori
(Compagnia del Disegno - Milan, 1991)
“Anna Santinello chose a ductile but hardworking matter, to allow the value of uniqueness that, today, the art is gradually forgetting…”
Maurizio Cecchetti
(Interart Gallery - Munich, 1993)
"...Santinello has such confidence, in her own way of expressing herself, on her originality, that she can brighten the drama of vision."
Rossana Bossaglia
(Compagnia del Disegno e Castello Sforzesco - Milan, 2000)
”…it is always her indomitable and unconquerable strength to hit us, to insert us in the barbed wire of his vision made of purges and materials, skies pierced and suffering bodies."
Marco Vallora
(Compagnia del Disegno e Castello Sforzesco - Milan, 2000)
“The aggressive marble sculptures in metal tangles of Anna Santinello […] are terrifying, formidable […] fearful […] A sculpture which represents […] deformed human body shreds is understandable because it represents something. But the point is this understanding what is behind this “something”…”
Mario Pancera
("Anna Santinello, sculture perverse di una signora assolutamente perbene", from Il Giornale - August 14 2000)
“…even if we briefly stop at the scene, so full and yet so empty, of this intimately ambiguous and thick with pathos sculpture, we are soon led to […] connect us with the performative action that moves it, while we recognize the high expressive power of the artist.”
Tommaso Trini
(Spazio T-Art - Milan, 2002)
“…in addition to the jaunty but huge strength that the artifacts evolve, the fine and rare elegance of the material sign immediately strikes the view, a feature not common to any other sculptor or sculptress of our modern tradition.”
Bruno Ceccobelli
(Sogliano al Rubicone, 2006)
“There are strength but also pain in her creativity, resistance and failure, power and powerlessness. The theme of female power, as opposed to male power, is here pointed out in an exemplary manner.”
Silvia Vegetti Finzi
(Vecchiato Art Galleries - Padua 2011)
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