Paper, speech, drawing, collage, poetry, fabric, installation, and embroidery are the means of expression of Andrea Cocca, artistically known as Cenzo. His research advances cautiously within the visual and cultural tradition of his island, Sardinia, driven by the urgent need to reject the homogenization of the image and the pretense of purifying reality. On the contrary, he infuses it with the archaic and the contemporary, the playful and the sacred, the anthropological and the magical.
There is a vibrant beauty in tradition when it moves through reality; the sign and the word break the glass of the shop window to contaminate the here and now, and thus a contemporary practice is born in which only the artist, the researcher, can be the actor, renewing and perpetuating in this act the creation of new things.
Works of refined tension emerge. It is not merely a fusion of novelty, but something deeper, truer, more immediate: a wisdom that surfaces from chaos. Each work is always a whisper of lived life, recounted through fantastical visions that enter the present like morning frost.
When you look at a work by Cenzo, you understand that he lived each line, each mark, in the movement of his pencil or needle. The first time I saw a work by Cenzo, I thought of the little girl in the red coat in the black and white of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List: beauty in motion, indifferent to the crowd.
