JEAN SARDI (Toulon 1947) Lot n° 332

JEAN SARDI (Toulon 1947) Peasant in the countryside Oil on canvas mounted on panel, signed lower right. Dimensions : 33 x 40 cm French painter, Jean Sardi spent his youth in Toulon but had to move to Champagne for professional reasons. Unbearable exile, he returns to his native region in 1980 and it is the meeting of the painter Jacques Bartoli in Toulon and the frequentation of the small world of the local painters which sounds the beginning of a new life exalting thanks to the painting which takes a dominating place in its existence. It is in the silence of his studio that Jean Sardi works, sheltered from the light that he loves so much, and that he knows how to render so well. There, solitary, he concentrates to translate on his canvas the vision which haunts him. He fights with the matter in a concern of surpassing himself. In his compositions structured by the play of horizontals and verticals, in his arrangement of the elements and the tonal chords, his sense of harmony balances the dynamism and the chromatic ardor. The color bursting with light is the true subject of the paintings of Jean Sardi. The proposed forms are only pretexts to perpetuate a happy and serene vision, most often of Provence. Inspired colorist, he knows how to make perfectly what is impalpable: the atmosphere, the heat, the space, the cheerfulness, the generosity.