Anna Sargenti

Artist’s name of Anna Maria Di Nozzi

1943 – 2021

Italy

date of insertion in W.A.D. 06/2025

Biography

Anna Sargenti’s Biography (Artist’s name of Anna Maria Di Nozzi)

Rome September 20th 1943 – Salerno September 23rd 2021

Anna Sargenti attended the the Academy of Fine Arts and the Free School of Nude in Rome.

In 1980 her first solo exhibition took place at the L’Angolo gallery in Rome.

Later on she moved to Naples where she kept working on her art until meeting important art critics and historians such as :Ricci, Trimarco, Bontempo, Izzo and, especially Filiberto Menna, giving her work the opportunity to compare and enrich itself through critical dialogue.

Her first exhibition in Naples was in 1987 at the Sala Vincenzo Gemito, followed in 1988 by the one at the Galleria Vinciana in Milan.

Starting from a figurative pictorial research with the representation of female bodies through marked lines, Anna Sargent’s work evolved into a lightening of figurative lines until reaching completely abstract forms.

Since the late 1980s, her canvases appear animated by lines and signs that create dynamic forms where, the construction from a black background alternates with other chromatic dominants linked to specific emotional implications using yellow, blue, red to then turn to white.

In this period, the solo exhibition at Studio Trisono in 1992 is particularly significant.
Anna Sargenti draws inspiration from the work of Andrè Breton, presenting works entirely dedicated to the yellow chromatic range.

Painting is the privileged form of language for her work, but it is worth noting a continuous experimentation through the use of different materials like wood, plastic, siporex, plexiglass, and surfaces where we find iron wires, fragments of string, concretions of foam, collages of photographs and poetic texts.

The pictorial intervention therefore transposes also in a three-dimensional way and ends up involving entire environments, such as the spaces of the Trillone Psychiatric Hospital where Sargenti worked between 1994 and 1995.

The artist also combines his pictorial practice with frequent forays into the field of design and the production of objects with the creation of tables, lamps, jewels, fabrics, ceramics that reproduce the lines and signs of the canvases.

In 2000, the Sala Dorica of Palazzo Reale in Naples hosted Sargenti’s personal exhibition “Ri-Tratti”, followed by “Bianco e l’anima” in the prisons of Castel dell’Ovo in 2003, inspired by the work “Il Minotauro” by Durrenmatt and all focused on the colour white.

In 2005 takes place the exhibition “Come il Giorno e la Notte” at the Changing Role More Gallery where she presents work made with different materials whose trait d’union is the figure of Marlon Brando.

Works of Anna Sargenti are permanently installed on the walls of the Quattro Giornate (“Sabe Que La Lucia es Cruel” 2000, transfiguration in collage form of a poem by Santos Discepolo) and Salvator Rosa (“C’est la Crapule” installed in 2001 and previously presented in Beijing in 1995 at the UN conference of women’s rights) underground stations in Naples.

Her career ends, before her death, with the June 2017 personal anthological exhibition “Tu Sei 1975 – 2017”, a showcase of over 40 years of activity that took place at the P.A.N in Naples

Curriculum

Curriculum of Anna Sargenti ( artist’s name of Anna Maria Di Nozzi),
Roma 20th of September 1943 – Salerno 23rd of September 2021
Anna Sargenti stars with her artistic career from the middle of years ‘70
.During the year 1980, before her transfer to Naples, her first personal exhibition in Rome at L’Angolo Gallery, followed from the here with exhibitions:
Personal exhibitions:
1987 Naples Sala Vincenzo Gemito
1987 Naples Libera Università di danza e teatro, curator Francesco Bartoli
1988 Milan Galleria Vinciana
1989 Rome Studi R. “ Discorso sulla soglia” , curator Filiberto Menna
1990 Naples Galleria Art – Image
1991 Milan Galleria Rizzardi
1992 Naples Studio Trisorio “Segreti divisi – divisi segreti”
1993 Milan Galleria Cortina “ Terrain Vogue”
1993/1994 Naples Artex Arte “Orientations”
1994/1995 Naples Ospedale Psichiatrico Frullone “Similitudo opere recluse”
1996 Naples Galleria Toledo “Il mio amico Hitler”
1997 Milan Galleria Cortina
1998 Rome Teatro del Vascello “Il mio amico Hitler”
1998 Venice “La grafica dell’arte”
1998 Naples Bachelite “Fiat Lux”
1999/00 Naples Palazzo Reale sala Dorica “Ri-tratti” text of Achille Bonito Oliva
2002 Naples Bottega d’arte Maurizio Siniscalco “amore sacro – amore frofano”
2003 Naples Castel dell’Ovo la prigioni “ Bianco è Anima”
2003 Bruxelles Galerie Viviana Grandi “Bianco è Anima”
2003 Belgrad “Bianco è Anima”
2004 Lioni Abbazia del Golelo “Il cielo continuo”
2005 Naples “Changing role come il giorno e la notte”
2006 Rome Regione Campania “Berlin 89”
2017 Naples P.A.N. Palazzo delle Arti “Io sono tu sei”, curator Maria Savarese

Collecttive exhibitions:
1987 Naples Castel dell’Ovo “Il mondo delle donne”
1988 Rome Studio R.
1988 Lucca Villa Pellizzari, curator Bruno Corà
1988 Erice ex Convento San Carlo “Mediterraneo”, curator Filiberto Menna
1990 Rome Galleria Bozzi “Roma arte oggi”
1991 Rome sala I “Dadapolis” incontri International d’arte, curator Bruno Corà
1991 Rome Parcheggio di Villa Borghese “Parietaria” incontri International d’arte
1991 Naples Studi Framart “Passaggi”
1991 Spoleto ex Convento San Matteo “Arte domani”, curator Aldo Iorio
1991 Basilea Expo Fiera Arte Contemporanea (studio Trisorio)
1991 Ferrara “Artea” of Achille Bonito Oliva
1992 Rome “Artea” of Achille Bonito Oliva
1992 Milan “Artea” of Achille Bonito Oliva
1992 Spoleto “ la memoria del Bianco”, curator Vittoria Biasi
1992 Naples “Giornate Napoletane di design”, curator Amerigo De Angelis
1992 Avugnone Palais de Papes “ Bianco Poetare”
1993 Bonn Lands Museum “Die Verlase Schuhe”
1993 Rome Studio Dino Mollica “Carte”
1994 New York Museo d’arte conntemporanea “Carte”
1994 Naples Galassia Gutemberg “Cartanapoli”
1994 Ferrara Musei Civici “Ventagli d’invenzione”, curator Andy Pansera
1994 Naples Incontri International d’Arte “Ovazioni Pasquali”
1994 Florence Biblioteca Nazionale “Alphabetica”
1994 Rome Palazzo delle Esposizioni “Imperatrice Nuda”
1995 Taipei Memorial Hall “Arti Visive”, curator Ada Lombardi
1995 Ostenda Museum of Modern Art “PMMK”
1995 Beijing Wan Fung Gallery “Conferenza mondiale della donna”
1996 Naples Incontri International Arte “Sellarium”
1996 Trevi Trevi Museum
1998 Bonn Land Museum “Gotic Art”
1998 Naples Fortezza de Basso “Il Libro d’Artista”
1998 Naples Sala Vincenzo Gemito “Berlino – Napoli”
1998 Naples Galleria Istituto “Berlino – Napoli”
2000 Naples Palazzo Reale “Cartoline da Napoli”
2000 Naples Piazza Plebiscito “Bandiere di Maggio”, curator Edoardo Cicelyn
2000 Naples Stazione metro P. 4 Giornate Installation “Sabe que la lucha es cruel”
2000 Naples Stazione metro Salvator Rosa installation “C’est la Crapule”
2001 Naples Alex Arte “Uova di Pasqua”
2002 Ferrara Museo Marfisa D’Este “Femminilità”
2005 Villaricca (NA) “Cortili d’Arte”
2006 Naples Città della Scienza “Wonder Woman”
2006 Villaricca (NA) “I Cortili dell’Arte”