Critical views
What the critics say
Praised by several art critics, in Paris, New York and Sardinia. The essentials, in one minute.
“Isa Sator is a painter, absolutely a painter. […] In recent years she has established herself as a major painter of the Parisian scene.”
“How could one not look at canvases that tear us away from widespread indifference?”
“An artist is born, who radiates upon us with colors of an almost blinding intensity and overwhelms us with her generosity.”
“A Picasso of the 21st century, as one might well define her.”
“This painting undoes the ties of the visible so that the elusive paradoxically takes on a body.”
“The artist's work does not go unnoticed: very strong contrasts, very joyful paintings.”
Compared with the great masters
“Taking a cue from artists like Picasso and Chagall, Sator's creations are a rare combination of sensuality, naivety, feminism and vibrancy of color and mood.”
“Like Paul Gauguin, Sator honed her craft in the South Seas. She now lives and works in Paris where critics have likened her abstract expressionist oils to Chagall and even Picasso.”
“Incredibly gifted, endowed with a limitless creative impulse, the artist invents a language at the junction of painters such as Nolde, Cocteau, Masson, Joëlle de La Casinière and Basquiat.”
“The strength is still there, but the line has grown finer. […] No doubt about it, the force is with her.”
The New York texts are quoted in their original English; those by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret and Patrick Wassef are translated from the artist's portfolio (2017, in French).
Excerpts translated from French and Italian, with a link to each full text.