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.
His visual practice was previously presented under the name Sante Visioni.
BIO
Tokyo-based Italian artist Sandro Bacchi operates within a continuous tension between instinct and rationality.
His paintings often begin with a direct, instinctive impulse that is challenged, redirected and structured through a more analytical process. Rather than one force correcting the other, the work develops through their ongoing negotiation, until a point of compositional balance is reached.
Operating between figuration and abstraction, Bacchi’s paintings are often structured around recurring faces and fragmented forms. These are not portraits or defined characters, but part of a visual vocabulary developed over many years. Recognizable yet unstable, they retain a strong evocative presence without resolving into fixed identities or narratives.
Bacchi’s background in Industrial Engineering speaks to an equally ingrained inclination toward systems, repetition and constraint. Rather than suppressing spontaneity, these structures create the conditions within which it can remain active. The same logic extends into performance and process-based works, where drawing, sound, duration and physical action unfold within constructed systems that, through repetition, can assume a ritualistic character and acquire a charge beyond their practical function.
Across these forms, Bacchi’s practice remains centered on an obsessive pursuit of balance, not as harmony or resolution, but as a condition in which opposing forces can coexist without neutralizing their tension.