Andrea Famà

Born in an Catania, Sicily, an area known for the extraction of clay and raised in a context of potters, Andrea Famà remains deeply attached to the optical, tactile and intrinsic aspects of the material he works. Often proceeding by subtraction, he consciously seeks the essence of the material, its consistency, its technical and qualitative characteristics. It is the substances of which his sculptures are composed that dictate the long working times to which the artist scrupulously adheres, as he is moved by genuine respect for the natural processes that underlie the various transformation procedures. The cards proposed by Andrea Famà, the result of his latest production, do not escape this operational approach. In fact, they are the result of the patient overlapping of glazes obtained with a ballpoint pen, in this specific case, used by the artist as if it were a tool suitable for sculpting. Once crumpled up and exposed to a grazing light, the matter emerges and takes on the shape of a thin sheet of copper. Although there is no trace of it, on a perceptive level, it is still possible to grasp the essence of the material, left by the artist suspended, amorphous, halfway between its natural aspect and that achieved only after the intervention of the human hand.

He currently lives and works in Turin, Italy.

Valeria Dardano

Born in Catanzaro, Calabria in 1993 Valeria Dardano was raised in Albi, a small town in the southern Italian hinterland.

Distinguished by her versatility, in 2013 she started taking part in various exhibitions as well as international and national artists’ residencies. Her work is marked out by a continuous artistic research based on the investigation of environmental dynamics, and the contemporary connection between humans and nature and the resulting awareness of how lasting and inconclusive this same connection can be.

In 2014 she obtained her bachelor degree in Visual Arts and Performing Arts disciplines, specialized in Sculpture at the Catanzaro Academy of Fine Arts. In 2015 she continued her art studies in Castellòn de la Plana, Spain. In 2017 she obtained her master degree in Sculpture at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Torino.

Valeria Dardano's research is pervaded by the wish of knowing what the world looks like beyond the ending, the subject, the meaning and the horizon of disappearance; in a world where what disappears keeps leading a life in hiding together with its supernatural effect. The works are enlivened by the lust for the unknown and the wonder in front of what’s obscure and inexplicable, giving to the viewer a glimmer of a perished dimension forgotten in time, perhaps, never existed. Where shapes and concepts collide and intertwine, linked to the perception of time and to the footprints left by an existence in transit on an empty space, exhorting its investigation though its twisted articulation.