NICOLÒ MASIERO SGRINZATTO

1992, Padova, IT
Lives and works in Padova, Italy

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Builds unruly machines and objects. Retinal contentment is satisfied or undone by their ambiguous and precarious condition. Sculptures and installations plunder, mix and freeze-dry the raw talent and playful approach of provincial stunts, study the hyperbolic style of the carousel understood as a possible allegory of performance. Inspired and referencing a context of festivals and country fates, the artists captures these events forging of the most disparate visual-auditory stimuli creating a theater of unique performances. The 'sagresco' environment is par excellence a restless, dusty, unpredictable and dynamic place, in contrast to its subdivision and fragmented and paratactic organisation. Ballroom music and dance of the same name collide with dubious tech-house and hedonistic performances by some of those present, the frenetic noise of a current generator coagulates with the rhythmic puffs coming from the technical-mechanical system of the rides. For fine palates, the powder is mixed with fries and pralined almonds. They are mash-ups that are as crude and goofy as they are sophisticated. Fascinated by this world I have attempted to collect, digest, re-orient and reject these stimuli again. Having experienced (and experiencing) mostly festivals in the lower Padua area, Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto draws from the local vocabulary which is instinctive and natural.

Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad. Gallery exhibitions include: Caìgo, 2023, This is not a curated exhibition III, 2022 - 2023, Risky Hardware, 2021, This is not a curated exhibition II, 2021 - 2022 Tòrbio, 2021, Who is Ramo (Project Room #1), 2021 Antiforma, 2018-2019.