Church of Sant'Anna

Try to imagine if in the pixels imprinted on the icon the baroque facades of a church dissolved into layers of color, while a tower topped by a cross emerges as a temporal index.The presence of the clock face and the two bell towers refers to the Church of Sant'Anna, a monumental parish in the Stampace district, built at the end of the eighteenth century with its monumental stairs and twin towers crowned by clocks that mark the life of the city.In the painting the structures seem to multiply and reflect, suggesting that the time of the city is not linear but stratified, a continuous reference between past and present.The blue and pink backgrounds that match the architectural lines evoke the terraced houses and shops of Stampace, while the Gothic details suggested above and below the church bring to mind the arches and mullioned windows of the Palazzo Civico of Cagliari along Via Roma.This overlap between the sacred and the civil reproduces the reality of a capital that has always intertwined religious and administrative functions.