We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Paolo Giuseppe Sanna a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Paolo Giuseppe, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

What defines art as such, according to my personal vision, starts from the assumption of artistic expression as a necessary need, of a gesture and a moment in which the inner movements of the creator are reflected in the surrounding environment, framing it through its own emotional filter and, vice versa, through the sensations and emotions that the synergistic relationship with the environment gives us, mutating us and our vision. The main project Anima Mundi, was born and developed according to this concept, mainly thanks to natural environments and a deep reflection and inner research, which led me to dig into the deepest emotions that grip human, using them as a means to represent reality.
Contrasts such as the reflection on impermanence and delicacy, poetry and the non-explicit essence of what surrounds us lead me to create works that are able to give the observer an emotional impact of inner reflection, devoid as much as possible of interpretative tracks, creating a type of emotional photography and suggestions.
To feel the essence behind reality and search the light in the darkness.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

As mentioned above, what distinguishes my work is dictated by the synergistic relationship with natural environments, environments in which I mirror myself and bring out the most intimate parts of myself. This process results in a type of concrete photography that lives a process more similar to the classic approach to traditional arts rather than traditional photography. The photographs are not born as an external request but as the result of a process that leads to the creation of the artwork. The work, unique, is part of the Anima Mundi project but stands alone inserted in an artistic production that provides a clear and precise emotional and visual fil rouge.
The photograph resulting from this process lives on its own identity and life, on its iconicity, dialoguing with the other works and creating a subtractive narrative, in which the observer is asked to immerse himself in the flow of emotions that springs from it.
Only later the artworks find a place in the market, purchased exactly as if they were works in their own, mainly in the contemporary and experimental musical context.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Certainly encourage and finance cultural contexts, of any entity and artistic form. I come from a culturally very stagnant territory and with few possibilities and I realize how much this, both as regards the artists in the area, and as regards the social interest in art and culture, creates a chain effect that penalizes society in general, not only the artists.
Investing in culture and the arts in every form means giving the tools, to anyone, to be able to relate with different visions of the world, of the ordinary, of concepts that can create mental elasticity instead of rigidity.
Mutual contaminations, connections between people through different visions, is what a society needs to evolve in a healthier and more open direction, giving anyone the tools to express themselves and the channels in which to be able to insert themselves and grow up together in diversity.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Be free. To be able to work with what would still be a natural gesture.
The second thing is definitely the continuous process of self-analyzing and understanding oneself. In producing a work, we inevitably have a product that reflects the intimacy of a person, and reveals every part of ourselves.
This is clear to anyone who creates something.
We change as people, our approach to life and to ourselves changes, our way of conceiving the world and life changes, art, creating, allows us to manifest and see the evolution of this process.
I think from a certain point of view it’s therapeutic in this sense.
Another very important thing for me is that it gives me the opportunity to meet people, artists, from all over the world.
Getting to know new cultures, new ways of conceiving life, creating bonds that go beyond all borders.
I’m very grateful for having had the opportunity to compare myself with artists and people from all over the world. It’s one of the most important things ever.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://animamundiessence.wixsite.com/animamundi
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__animamundi/