Come bestie / Umanità relativa

Curated by Maila Buglioni and Ivan D’Alberto

The cultural association TRAleVOLTE is pleased to invite you on Friday, June 16, 2023 at 6:00 PM to the opening of the dual solo exhibition by Francesco Andreozzi and Sara Zanin, titled come BESTIE | umanità RELATIVA, curated by Maila Buglioni and Ivan D’Alberto.

The exhibition project comes to life thanks to the collaboration between the cultural association TRAleVOLTE and YAG/garage, the Pescara-based art gallery, a partnership that continues into 2023 with this single appointment. Come BESTIE | umanità RELATIVA by Francesco Andreozzi and Sara Zanin is an invitation to reflect on how much of the beastly still implicitly coexists within our human nature.

Both artists—each through their expressive peculiarities and artistic research —place the viewer before seemingly ordinary everyday situations, where unawareness, collectivity, suspension, and animality become the coordinates through which these scenes can be interpreted and, at the same time, recognized. If Andreozzi’s hyperrealistic paintings reference scenes from ordinary life, echoing photography through a masterful use of the paintbrush, Zanin draws attention to objects and scenes, revealing a rich spec trum of characteristics ranging from the beastly to the erotic.

On the occasion of the exhibition opening, Casale del Giglio, a winery founded in 1967 by Dino Santarelli, will offer a tasting of its wines.

Biography

Francesco Andreozzi was born in Rome on May 13, 1995. He grew up in Rome, where he attended art school, later studying to become a comic artist.Cresce a Roma dove frequenta la scuola d’arte e in seguito studia per diventare fumettista. During his years in comics, he had the opportunity to study drawing theory along with various painting techniques, including watercolor and oil painting. The black-and-white ink typical of comic art became artistically limiting for him, and in 2020 he set it aside to dedicate himself primarily to oil painting. In 2020 he moved to Berlin, and in 2021 he returned to Rome, where he curr ently lives and works.

Sara Zanin was born in 1992 in Conegliano (TV). She lives and works in Rome. She holds a degree in Industrial Design and Fine Art Printmaking. Her work focuses primarily on painting, printmaking, and installation. Starting from the theme of Eating Disorders, she delved into the topic of Perception and its constant distortion, in the indissoluble link between Body and Soul. Creator of the “banana peel concept,” she identifies the banana peel as evidence of human presence, an envelope that reveals the “beastl y” aspect of being—one that extends into the erotic.