LAB | DAVIDE SGAMBARO: RESTA SVEGLIA
17 marzo 2023
Stay Awake is a workshop conceived by Davide Sgambaro for IUNO Studio, which aims to reflect on the relationship between personal desire and generational disenchantment starting from the metaphor of sleep.
The workshop is organized as a slumber party, and is aimed at sharing one's experience and relationship with the nocturnal dimension, intended as a site of protection, as an ideal escape from reality (the oneiric dimension), but also as a moment of insecurity and fear (acluophobia), prompted by the impossibility of seeing reality clearly.
Reasoning on the images and emotions aroused by darkness and the act of sleeping, necessary for survival, the artist and participants will elaborate together a "Goodnight Tale" that can convey, and make intelligible, what emerged and was discussed during the night hours spent together.
Davide Sgambaro Davide Sgambaro (Cittadella, 1989) studied at the
IUAV University of Venice, he lives and works
in Turin. Using different media, the artist explores existential themes relating to the condition of
the individual in contemporary precariousness. His practice restores irreverent dynamics of resistance in response to the paradoxes of identity and stereotypes inside the social and cultural order.
Solo exhibitions include: Nope!, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (2022); Too much and not the mood, LOCALEDUE, Bologna (2022); Feeling Fractional, 9 FrenchPlace, London (2022); Kiss, kick, kiss, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne (2021); Paesaggi eterni, SpazioSiena, Siena (2019); White and black stripes and a red noseAlmanac Inn, Turin (2019). He has participated in numerous residencies, collaborations and group exhibitions in public and private institutions such as Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (2015); Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte (2015, 2018); Q-Rated con la Quadriennale di Roma e Castello di Rivoli (2018); GAM Torino (2018); Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena (2019); Cantica 21, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2020-2021); SUPERBLAST II, Manifattura Tabacchi (2022); Nuovo Forno del PaneMAMbo Bologne (2023).
His work is in the permanent collections of the MAMbo Museum in Bologna; Fondazione CRT Arte di Torino per GAM Torino e Castello di Rivoli; Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena; Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze.