Sandro Bacchi is an Italian artist based in Tokyo. He holds two degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florence.
His work centers on painting, moving between figuration and abstraction through a process shaped by layering, erasure, and reconfiguration.
His practice originated in dialogue with sound, initially painting live within the electro-punk collective DPG, and continues to engage with music through curation and process-based formats.
Alongside his studio work, he develops live performances and site-specific interventions that extend his approach to painting into time and space.
BIO
Working under the pseudonym Sante Visioni, Tokyo-based Italian artist Sandro Bacchi, operates at the intersection of system and instinct, where painting becomes a process of controlled destabilization.
His works develop through cycles of construction, erasure, and reconfiguration. Images are built, obscured, and reintroduced, allowing the surface to retain traces of its own transformation rather than resolving into fixed compositions. What emerges is not a final image, but a temporary balance produced through sustained adjustment.
Operating between figuration and abstraction, recurring elements—faces, words, and fragmented symbols—function as unstable anchors within shifting compositions. Their role is not to clarify meaning, but to interrupt it, resisting immediate legibility.
His approach is informed by a background in systems-oriented thinking, where repetition, variation, and constraint shape the development of the work. This logic extends beyond the canvas into the construction of repeatable structures that, through sustained iteration, begin to operate as ritual frameworks. Within these conditions, spontaneity remains central, guided by rhythm and gesture, often influenced by his engagement with sound and time-based processes.
Extending beyond the canvas, his practice considers painting as both an object and a process—one that can unfold across time, space, and context. Within this framework, balance is not a resolution, but a temporary state continuously renegotiated through tension.