Sabrina Casadei's Evolving Paintings Featured in Solo Exhibition at Francesca Antonini Gallery in Rome

Artist Sabrina Casadei, born in Rome in 1985, has opened a solo exhibition at Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea in Rome. The show, curated by Marina Dacci, runs until March 21, 2026, marking her return to the gallery after four years since her last solo presentation there. Located at via di Capo le Case 4, the exhibition presents a body of work that explores the relationship between artistic creation and natural processes. Casadei's practice involves allowing materials to interact autonomously on horizontal canvases before she intervenes with further refinements once the works are displayed vertically. Her paintings depict natural themes through abstract representations of micro and macrocosms, avoiding direct figurative description. The artist employs a diverse range of materials including oils, acrylics, dyes, bleaches, cements, pigments, and waxes, resulting in textured, layered surfaces that evoke organic forms like fungal undergrowth, marine landscapes, and mollusks. A key theme throughout the exhibition is movement and fluidity, with large canvases suggesting ethereal forces, breezes, and currents through spontaneous material combinations. The main gallery space features works where wax creates reflective, three-dimensional surfaces. The exhibition also includes a tapestry produced using a digital jacquard loom at Lottozero, a textile experimentation laboratory in Prato, where Casadei translated a detail from one of her paintings into woven form, intentionally introducing digital errors. Additionally, the show presents intimate works on recovered paper supports such as notebooks and accounting registers purchased at Porta Portese, featuring visual annotations and impressions. The exhibition demonstrates Casadei's ongoing dialogue between intentional artistic gesture and the autonomous behavior of materials, positioning her practice as an investigation of the tension between reality's constant motion and the image's attempt to capture fleeting traces.