- Sebastiano Sofia
Secci Gallery is pleased to announce Sebastiano Sofia’s new solo exhibition on June 8, 2023, in the gallery spaces dedicated to NOVO in Via Olmetto 1, Milan. The works, created during the period spent in residence in Florence starting in January 2023, will be on view until September 16, 2023.
Sebastiano Sofia’s works are deeply connected to his personal iconographic universe, where human body, nature, and everyday objects get in contact and build a dialogue. His melancholic poetry is aimed to investigate dichotomies and contrasts between genders, humans and animals, the body as a place of sense as well as a space for irrationality. The imagery is not just the reproduction of a memory, but rather of a sensorial and tactile memory, activated in relation to the outside world. This path generates an anthropomorphic aesthetic without a precise identity.
His practice is truly personal, meditative, enclosed within his own experience. What the artist invites us to observe “are «landscapes» that I keep within myself, as the pages of diary. A photo album of both living and inner memories, a mixture of vision and movement”.
Sebastiano Sofia (Verona, 1986) lives and works between Verona and Milano. He has partecipated in various artist residencies including: Viafarini in residence (Milan) in 2013, Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice) in 2015, Maraya Art Center (Sharjah, UAE) in 2018, Collezione Palmieri in 2021 and Collezione De Iorio in 2021/2022. Solo exhibitions include in 2022 Marèa at Boccanera Gallery in Milan with a text by Alessandro Rabottini, in 2019 Anemone at Palazzo Monti in Brescia with a text by Denis Isaia, in 2018 Remember me, curated by Laura Metzler at Maraya Art Center in Sharjah (UAE), in 2017 Natural Metamorphosis at Fatma Lootah Gallery in Dubai (UAE) and in 2016 Ariel at CAR Drde in Bologna.
Secci Gallery is pleased to announce Sebastiano Sofia’s new solo exhibition on June 8, 2023, in the gallery spaces dedicated to NOVO in Via Olmetto 1, Milan. The works, created during the period spent in residence in Florence starting in January 2023, will be on view until September 16, 2023.
Sebastiano Sofia’s works are deeply connected to his personal iconographic universe, where human body, nature, and everyday objects get in contact and build a dialogue. His melancholic poetry is aimed to investigate dichotomies and contrasts between genders, humans and animals, the body as a place of sense as well as a space for irrationality. The imagery is not just the reproduction of a memory, but rather of a sensorial and tactile memory, activated in relation to the outside world. This path generates an anthropomorphic aesthetic without a precise identity.
His practice is truly personal, meditative, enclosed within his own experience. What the artist invites us to observe “are «landscapes» that I keep within myself, as the pages of diary. A photo album of both living and inner memories, a mixture of vision and movement”.
Sebastiano Sofia (Verona, 1986) lives and works between Verona and Milano. He has partecipated in various artist residencies including: Viafarini in residence (Milan) in 2013, Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice) in 2015, Maraya Art Center (Sharjah, UAE) in 2018, Collezione Palmieri in 2021 and Collezione De Iorio in 2021/2022. Solo exhibitions include in 2022 Marèa at Boccanera Gallery in Milan with a text by Alessandro Rabottini, in 2019 Anemone at Palazzo Monti in Brescia with a text by Denis Isaia, in 2018 Remember me, curated by Laura Metzler at Maraya Art Center in Sharjah (UAE), in 2017 Natural Metamorphosis at Fatma Lootah Gallery in Dubai (UAE) and in 2016 Ariel at CAR Drde in Bologna.
Sebastiano Sofia, Portrait of my shadow, 2023Oil on canvas
180 x 180 cm
70 7/8 x 70 7/8 in
Sebastiano Sofia, Sometimes my shadow is lost, 2023Oil and charcoal on canvas
180 x 165 cm
70 7/8 x 65 in
Sebastiano Sofia, Family Portrait, 2023Oil on canvas
195 x 213 cm
76 3/4 x 83 7/8 in
Sebastiano Sofia, Selfportrait, 2023Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
Sebastiano Sofia, La caccia, 2023Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
Sebastiano Sofia was born in Verona in 1986. He lives and works between Verona and Milan, and after briefly attending a few courses at the Naba in Milan, he continues his journey as a self-taught artist. He uses painting, drawing and sculpture to develop his personal iconographic universe in which the human body, the animal world and the domain of things are in mutual dialogue, often organised around a narrative centre open to suggestions and interpretations. In her works, contamination and metamorphosis govern the relationship between figures and environments. Sofia explores the fusion between feminine and masculine, between human and animal, between the body as a place of control and the body as a space for the loss of rationality, using a language that reveals the most human and melancholic traits of absurdity and violence.
He has taken part in various artist residencies, including: Viafarini in residence (Milan) 2013, Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice) 2015, Maya Art Center (Sharjah UAE) 2018, Palmieri Collection in 2021 and De Iorio Collection in 2021/2022
Solo exhibitions include 2022 Marèa at Boccanera Gallery in Milan with a text by Alessandro Rabottini, 2019 Anemone at Palazzo Monti in Brescia with a text by Denis Isaia, 2018 Remember me curated by Laura Mezler at Maraya art Center in Sharjah (UAE), 2017 Natural Metamorphosis at Fatma Lootha Gallery in Dubai (UAE), 2016 Ariel at CarDrde in Bologna.
Sebastiano Sofia was born in Verona in 1986. He lives and works between Verona and Milan, and after briefly attending a few courses at the Naba in Milan, he continues his journey as a self-taught artist. He uses painting, drawing and sculpture to develop his personal iconographic universe in which the human body, the animal world and the domain of things are in mutual dialogue, often organised around a narrative centre open to suggestions and interpretations. In her works, contamination and metamorphosis govern the relationship between figures and environments. Sofia explores the fusion between feminine and masculine, between human and animal, between the body as a place of control and the body as a space for the loss of rationality, using a language that reveals the most human and melancholic traits of absurdity and violence.
He has taken part in various artist residencies, including: Viafarini in residence (Milan) 2013, Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice) 2015, Maya Art Center (Sharjah UAE) 2018, Palmieri Collection in 2021 and De Iorio Collection in 2021/2022
Solo exhibitions include 2022 Marèa at Boccanera Gallery in Milan with a text by Alessandro Rabottini, 2019 Anemone at Palazzo Monti in Brescia with a text by Denis Isaia, 2018 Remember me curated by Laura Mezler at Maraya art Center in Sharjah (UAE), 2017 Natural Metamorphosis at Fatma Lootha Gallery in Dubai (UAE), 2016 Ariel at CarDrde in Bologna.
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