Portfolio is one of the two exhibition cycles of the program Quotidiana at the Museo di Roma- Palazzo Braschi conceived and produced by La Quadriennale di Roma in collaboration with City of Rome, Department of Culture – Superintendency for Cultural Heritage. Its aim is to explore a number of significant trends in 21st-century Italian art.
Once a month, an artist under the age of 35 are presented in the exhibition with a single work. T Their research is narrated in a portfolio developed by Gaia Bobò, curator of La Quadriennale.
The sixsteenth exhibition of Portfolio, (26 January to 18 Febrary 2024), is dedicated to Davide Sgambaro (Cittadella, 1989). To consult his portfolio read here.
Incorporating various elements of both online and offline popular culture, his research interprets a generation’s feelings of weariness, frustration and inadequacy. Through playful, apparently pointless gestures with a self-mocking tone, the artist unleashes small acts of rebellion against the cult of performativity.
The contrast between playful appearance and dramatic subtext, a constant in Davide Sgambaro’s practice, is central in I Push a Finger into My Eyes (Kick, Kiss, Kick). This title refers to a communication tactic peculiar to the world of work, in which bad news is mitigated by the extensive use of compliments. The glass case that constitutes the work protects a firework that has, however, already exploded. In this melancholic atmosphere, which evokes a party that has finished or a missed opportunity, there lingers the memory of an already concluded and irretrievable event.
The exhibition venue is the Museo di Roma-Palazzo Braschi (Piazza di San Pantaleo, 10/Piazza Navona, 2). The admission is free without reservation. Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 – 19.00
