PIETRO SARTO (Chiasso, Ticino, Switzerland, 1930). "Landscape", 2001

Signed and dated in the upper right. Born in Chiasso, a Swiss commune in the canton of Ticino near the border with Italy, Pietro Sarto moved to Paris in 1947, where he remained until 1959. There he learned the trade of engraving with Albert Flocon, mathematician, philosopher and writer , a former Bauhaus student, who taught him to use curvilinear perspective: Flocon considered that the viewer was not in front of a landscape, but participated in it. This concept guided much of Pietro Sarto's work. In 1977 Sarto created, together with the William Cuendet family (who donated their collection of Dürer and Rembrandt etchings), the "Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex" with which he developed the exhibition "Anatomie de la Couleur", presented in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and then in Lausanne at the Olympic Museum (1996). As engraving was only one of the facets of his life, he tirelessly continued his activity as a painter. After realizing that his place was Switzerland, he permanently moved to Lausanne. There he held his first solo exhibition, which led to another series of shows: at the Galerie de l'Entr'acte; in Neuchâtel, at the Galerie Ditesheim, in Geneva, at the Galerie Jacques Benador and in Avenches, at the Galerie du Château. Measurements: 79 x 101 cm which gave way to another series of exhibitions: at the Galerie de l'Entr'acte; in Neuchâtel, at the Galerie Ditesheim, in Geneva, at the Galerie Jacques Benador and in Avenches, at the Galerie du Château. Measurements: 79 x 101 cm which gave way to another series of exhibitions: at the Galerie de l'Entr'acte; in Neuchâtel, at the Galerie Ditesheim, in Geneva, at the Galerie Jacques Benador and in Avenches, at the Galerie du Château. Measurements: 79 x 101 cm