Vincenzo Satta was born in Nuoro in 1937. He has lived in Bologna since the mid-1960s, and over the years he has been a fundamental presence in the critical debate there on painting, for the almost rigorous reticence of his work, entirely based on light and its manifestations, which was radically extraneous to the prevailing tastes of the city, characterized by late-Informalist materialism. Following his debut solo show held at the Cancello II Gallery in Bologna in 1967, Satta interpreted the principles of an abstract art with analytical leanings. Despite not forging ties with the numerous groups that in various ways during the 1970s drew on the canons of “pittura-pittura”, as it was known, he exhibited with all the leading exponents of his generation, both in Italy and abroad: at the Milan Biennale, the Rome Quadriennale, in Paris, Frankfurt, Budapest, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Alexandria. His major retrospectives were held in the Palazzo Massari of Ferrara (1995) and the Nuoro Art Museum (1999).
