Sgambaro's research explores existential issues related to the condition of generational precariousness. Using different media, ranging from installation to photography, from sculpture to audio, he gives life to caustic narratives as a response to contemporary disparities. Delving through generational imagination and adopting an irreverent attitude, the artist is interested in the activation of survival mechanisms as a way to imagine possible survival solutions. His research is in fact linked to generational problems, with an eye to contemporary hysterias and obsessions caused by the search for fame. His works are presented through the use of narrative paradoxes triggered by traces of ephemeral corporeality. The body is the intermediary of the provocative, ironic gesture, that, together with the posthumous trace, resists the catatonic state and modifies space and matter. The importance of physical interaction is therefore a key to understand the installations that often weave with site-specific and participatory practices.
Solo exhibitions include: PASTORALE, Lavanderia LAVAPIU, Teramo, Italy; Nope!, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (2022); Too much and not the mood, LOCALEDUE, Bologna (2022); Feeling Fractional, 9 FrenchPlace, London (2022); Kiss, kick, kiss, Italian Instituto of Culture, Cologne (2021); Paesaggi eterni, SpazioSiena, Siena (2019); White and black stripes and a red nose, Almanac Inn, Turin (2019).
He has participated in national and international residencies and exhibitions such as La Quadriennale di Roma (2024); Civic Museums of Spoleto (2023); Nuovo Forno del Pane, MAMbo Museum Bologna (2023); Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023); SUPERBLAST II, NAM Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (2022); Cantica 21, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome (2020-2021); Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena (2019); GAM, Turin (2018); Q-Rated Quadriennale di Roma and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2018); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2015); Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, Poirino (2015), to mention a few.
He is a grantee of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, New York (2023-2024).
His work is in the permanent collections of the MAMbo Museum, Bologna; Fondazione CRT Arte collection: GAM Turin and Castello di Rivoli.
