Andrea Zampella at Art Verona
My work seeks to transform the painting into an environment. Objects, gestures, and spaces intersect to create a stage where reality appears suspended, where presence and absence coexist, and where the viewer navigates between actor and spectator.
Andreas Zampella
Andreas Zampella (b. 1989, Salerno, Italy) lives and works in Milan, where he is based at Armenia Studio, a shared workspace and cultural association founded in 2021 alongside Pietro Catarinella, Margaux Bricler, Matteo Pizzolante, and Matteo Vettorello. Trained in Decoration at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Zampella has built a multifaceted artistic practice that merges painting, sculpture, video, and site-specific installation, often working with clay and other humble materials.
Zampella’s work interrogates the nature of representation and the boundaries of painting. His compositions frequently feature fragments of the human body, everyday objects, electrical components, and recurring motifs, suspended between reality and imagination. Repetition and modularity create hypnotic and dreamlike effects, while his installations invite the audience to inhabit and participate in the work. Notable video-based projects include Corpo morbido (2022), co-created with Luca Mauceri for the RGB Light Festival in Rome, in which participants manipulated clay in real time, transforming spectators into active agents of the work.
His recent exhibitions have emphasized this integration of painting, sculpture, and installation. Dove nascono gli uccelli at Nashira Gallery (2023) featured new works in clay alongside installations of silicone and flour, evoking organic forms while engaging multiple senses. Earlier solo projects include Passaggio al buio (Portfolio, Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo Braschi, 2023), Piano d’ascolto at Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome (2022), and Eravamo cuori in Atlantide at Z2o Project, Rome (2024).
Zampella has also been recognized for his participation in numerous prestigious collective exhibitions and symposia, including the Premio Lissone (2023), Art Verona (2021, 2019), and the 54th Venice Biennale (2015, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Padiglione Italia). His works have been presented internationally in Greece, Germany, and beyond, demonstrating his interest in engaging the viewer through theatricality, presence, and the subtle interplay of absence.
Through his practice, Zampella investigates the tension between the quotidian and the symbolic, the static and the performative, building a poetic and immersive visual language that transforms objects and environments into stages for reflection, imagination, and suspended narratives.