La società delle mangrovie

On Wednesday, November 17, 2021, Alessandro Albanese Gallery presents the exhibition "La società delle Mangrovie," a solo show by Mattia Sugamiele with a body of work that spans from physical and virtual mediums, including painting, sculpture and digital work. As in a virtual environment, the elements of the exhibition overlap and juxtapose in harmony, fluctuating between fluidity, study of light, layers of changing colors, geometric and abstract shapes, fabrics and foam rubber. The title of the exhibition recalls the habitat of mangroves, which lives in hybrid waters between fresh and salt currents, just as the new contemporary life lives between real and virtual.

The pictorial work is composed of dual souls, from the world of digital and the fluidity of color. A parallelism emerges between digital painting, where Photoshop becomes a tool for stratification and addition of compositional layers, along with physical painting diluted with oil, airbrushed and combined with the porous touch of spray, where the layers of color mimic the reflections of clouds and water surfaces.