Il ballo dello studio, 2023 glaze and oil on canvas cm 35 x 50 (detail)
Andreas Zampella (Salerno, 1989) lives and works in Milan.
Originally from Salerno and trained in Naples with studies in Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Andreas Zampella has been living in Milan for five years, in addition to numerous residences in Italy, including BoCS Art in Cosenza and Dolomiti Contemporanee, his most recent exhibition curriculum includes the solo exhibition Piano d'ascolto at the Andrea Festa gallery in Rome (2022), the talk Passaggio al buio within the Portfolio cycle of the Quadriennale di Roma at Palazzo Braschi (2023) and the solo exhibition at the Nashira Gallery in Milan (2023).
All the elements of Andreas' work are composed as in a theatrical play: the picture is the scenography of actions and non-actions, metaphor of those who observe them; the tools and sculptures the props, whose meaning changes, is discovered in space, all things live a condition of continuous action, like abscesses of performative art.
With these guidelines, his work investigates the relationship between reality and representation in society, admitting the failure of communication in contemporaneity. As thresholds or semi-open exits, his works oscillate in conditions bordering on fatigue and anxiety, lament and accusation, obligation and boredom, individual and collectivity, and they do so in an indolent, hypocritical way, in the full paradox of reality.
With these guidelines, his work investigates the relationship between reality and representation in society, admitting the failure of communication in contemporaneity. As thresholds or semi-open exits, his works oscillate in conditions bordering on fatigue and anxiety, lament and accusation, obligation and boredom, individual and collectivity, and they do so in an indolent, hypocritical way, in the full paradox of reality.