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 artists 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.
Davide Sgambaro (Padova, 1989), lives and works in Turin. He studied Visual and Performative Arts at the IUAV University of Venice.
Exhibitions and awards include: IMAGINA - XXVII Biennale di Gubbio, Gubbio, Italy; Hyperlocal Festival 2023, Milan, Italy; Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2023-2024, winner of the grant; La sostanza agitata, group show, Spoleto, Italy; Obselfed, group show, Klemm's Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); but it did happen, group show, Spazio In Situ, Rome, Italy (2023); Nel paese delle ultime cose, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, Italy (2022); Nope!, solo show, Alberta Pane Gallery, Paris, France (2022); Feeling Fractional, solo show, 9 French Place in Shoreditch, London, UK (2022); Kiss, kick, kiss, solo show, Italian Institute of Culture Köln, Cologne, Germany (2021); ARTISSIMA Art Fair, Main section, with Alberta Pane (Paris, Venezia), Turin, Italy (2021); Ciak Collecting - Collection and the city Art Verona Fair, curated by Irene Sofia Comi, Palazzo Orti Manara, Verona, Italy (2021); Never shall we labour, Centre Civic Can Felipa, curated by Irene Angenica, Barcelona, Spain (2021); winner of the Public Call Cantica21. Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere - Under 35 Section - acquisition by MAMbo Museum, Bologna, Italy; Salut à toi, Flush Project Space, Paris (2021); Whatever it takes, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy (2020); Paesaggi eterni, Spaziosiena, Siena, Italy (2019); L'abbaglio, Société Interludio, Turin, Italy (2019); Diari tra diari, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte and GAM Torino, Turin, Italy (2019); White and black stripes and a red nose (The game, Let's talk), Almanac Inn, Turin, Italy (2019); Il disegno politico italiano, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy (2019); Q- Rated, La Quadriennale di Roma, Castello di Rivoli (To), Italy (2018); Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più, Rita Urso Artopia Gallery, Milan, Italy (2018); Love me tender, Stonefly Art Prize, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (2018); Combat Prize, Museo G. Fattori, Livorno, Italy (2017); Francesco Fabbri Prize, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Italy (2016); 100th-99th young artists collective, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (2015-2016); Le projet de l'étoile, La Non-Maison Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, France, (2016); Atelier Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (2015-2016); Residenza Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, Poirino (TO), Italy (2015); A Symphony of Hunger Digesting Fluxus in Four Movements, A+A Gallery, Venice, Italy (2015).
His work is present in public and private collections.