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 Roma Culture, Rome’s Superintendency for Cultural Heritage. Its aim is to explore a number of significant trends in 21st-century Italian art.
Once a month, eleven artists under the age of 35 are presented in the exhibition with a single work. Their research is narrated in a portfolio developed by the Curator-in-residence at La Quadriennale.
The sixth exhibition of Portfolio (17 February – 12 marzo 2023) is dedicated to Andreas Zampella (Salerno, 1989). In his research, Andreas Zampella puts together real “stagings” of recurrent subjects and obsessions, whose combination he uses to generate alienating visions. His works stand on the threshold of a precarious balance; they seek to unveil the performative processes of matter, while admitting into themselves elements of the unpredictable and unexpected. This continuous and reiterated tension is expressed in force-fields in which the artist activates logical and material short-circuits, which produce silent and imaginative narratives.To consult his portfolio read here.
Passaggio al Buio (2022) is a small-format painting conceived and produced in a condition of half-light, in a room lit only by the morning sunrays coming through the airvents. In correspondence with one of these, the artist imagines the presence of a piece of wild vegetation that has sprouted on the wall. Within an alienating context, Zampella emphasises a living, vital detail. He does so through the precarious dialogue it manages to establish with another element, a fleeting ray of sunlight. This subtle search for Nature assailing a human space is thus present in the work itself, but also extends into the exhibition space, in an ideal continuity between the imaginary dimension and reality. This reminds us how the division between the world of emotional experience and the physical world is only a fragile convention — and one that we are capable of breaking down every day.
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
