Andrea Sampaolo - Harmony of Marble

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

Even in his sculptural work, Andrea Sampaolo confirms the coherence of his expressionist and informal aesthetic, with a certain Brutalist edge. While in his paintings this approach was expressed through dramatic gestures, in his sculpture it is primarily the concreteness of the material (in this case, marble) that takes center stage. Thus, the block is left almost entirely immanent, allowing the artist a seemingly minimal intervention that, in reality, imbues the marble with a vital and musical vibration of great intensity.

Andrea Sampaolo was born in Rome on March 27, 1966. After earning his art teacher's diploma in 1983, Sampaolo began his artistic career as a painter in 1989. His research soon expanded into diverse experiences, including visual installations and performances, and extended into fields such as communication and design. Although he favors painting as a field of experimentation, Sampaolo today presents himself as an eclectic and multifaceted artist, unafraid of the rapid transformations underway in contemporary art. In 2010, he traveled to the United States after his work was selected by Poltrona Frau for its annual exhibition of emerging artists, held at its Miami headquarters. This would be a pivotal moment in Sampaolo's career, as his 32 large canvases documented and honored the close connection between his art and the American avant-garde of the 1950s and New York graffiti art. Hence the decision to move permanently to Miami, where he was signed by the Unix gallery, with which he participated in Art Miami and the Art Southampton fair. On September 21, 2013, a public marble work, "Ghost Dog," was inaugurated in the Cloister of San Francesco in Norcia, Umbria, commissioned by the local government. In 2014, Andrea Sampaolo interpreted marble in a pictorial and contemporary way in the RE-LIFE project. In 2015-16, he exhibited as a special guest at the ArtRooms event in London, and in November 2016, he created the exhibition "Deconstructing the Abstract" at the new Frau Atlantica space, as an extra-salon event of the 2016 Art Miami exhibition, under the patronage of the Italian Consulate.

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