Sabina Mirri
Born in Rome (Italy) on 23 June 1957.
Italian, of Swiss-German origin · the artist describes herself as Swiss-Roman · Post-Transavanguardia · Roman San Lorenzo milieu · Neo-Expressionist and Neo-Romantic figuration · multidisciplinary contemporary art
Sabina Mirri is an Italian artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and installation. She trained at the Liceo Artistico in Rome, studying painting under Giulio Turcato, and made an early debut in 1976 with a solo exhibition at Galleria La Margherita. In the early 1980s she took part in exhibitions devoted by Achille Bonito Oliva to the Post-Transavanguardia and became associated with the Roman milieu of the San Lorenzo artists, including Marco Tirelli, Giuseppe Gallo, Gianni Dessì, Luca Sanjust and Patrizia Cantalupo.
In 1983 she participated in the Trigon Biennial in Graz and presented the solo exhibition “Quadri 1981-1983” at A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna. She subsequently moved to New York, producing large, vividly coloured works on paper and exhibiting within the circle of the Annina Nosei Gallery, which held a solo show of her work in 1984.
In 1985 she participated in the XIII Biennale de Paris, the XVIII São Paulo Biennial and “A New Romanticism” at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Since the mid-1990s she has lived and worked in Petrolo, near Mercatale Valdarno, while maintaining close ties with Rome. Her work brings together personal memory, literary and art-historical references, everyday objects, introspection and irony.
Drawing remains the generative core of a practice in which images emerge through layering, erasure and transformation. Later projects such as the “Studiolo” have extended this approach into an environmental form, assembling artworks, objects and autobiographical traces as a deliberately mobile and provisional archive.
The works by Sabina Mirri presented by Swiss Art Gallery extend this artistic journey and take their place naturally within this corpus.
