The art of Elena Sarni is a successful attempt to reintegrate all that the art world has been busy deconstructing since at least the second World War. It is the next step that people have long been anticipating and that had to emerge after the elision of the contradictions in traditional artistic practice - the contradictions between the figurative and the abstract, between drawing and painting, irony and sincerity, artistic self-expression and engagement with the world at large.