Matilde Sambo: Subtle Instability at Vino Vero Venice
Vino Vero continues its collaboration with Lightbox, a new series of events related to contemporary art curated by Mara Sartore. On a quarterly basis, international artists who work with nature are invited to present site-specific works in the window of the wine club adjacent to the bar.
Matilde Sambo (Venice 1993) has graduated in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice and has participated in national and international artistic projects and residencies. The artist, whose artistic research explores the complicated relationship between the natural world and the human being, presents a site-specific work entitled “Subtle Instability”.
Matilde Sambo’s research moves on apparently contradictory concepts that intersect on common points and then merge. The artist often uses extremely ductile and fragile organic materials to represent the importance of change and transformation as fundamental principles of the natural cycle; elements that she then puts into dialogue with materials that are mostly metallic and linked to the sculptural tradition.
Matilde Sambo says about her work: “The search for stability is constant, but in the knowledge that there is a subtle instability in everything, we can truly appreciate every little thing in life. Collapsing, fragmenting, breaking and recomposing are an integral part of the installation. The two natural elements, the thorny acacia thorns and the soy ‘skin’, protect each other”.
The VETRINA project began on 25th September with the French artist Marie Denis, represented by the Galleria Alberta Pane Venezia – Paris, who created “Spathes” for Vetrina #1, an aluminum sculpture that takes inspiration from research on botany, made in collaboration with the Giovanardi textile company. For Vetrina #2, the artist Elham M. Aghili, an Italian-born artist with Persian roots who is finishing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, presented “Hybrids”, an immersive installation recalling an ideal garden, a metaphor of our inner world, a microcosm of nature and humanity.
The next editions will see new installations from the following creatives: Ignazio Mortellaro and Lilla Tabasso.
With the series of exhibitions Vetrina, artists are invited to reflect on the theme of nature, a key element in the philosophy of Vino Vero, and to create a site-specific installation capable of communicating with a context distinctive far from the usual exhibition spaces in the city of Venice.
