To Dream, to Collect
Romana Zambon
Brindisi, Italy
1 Works exhibited
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- Pop Art , Landscape , Still Life , Nature , Photography
Romana Zambon is a curious observer of the world and she has no intend to dwell on a single theme or on a single subject. For this reason, it is not easy to place her within a specific category and, although this might seem a limit as it means that she is not specialized in a single direction, it is, on the contrary, an advantage as it means that she knows how to appreciate the different shapes of creativity developing a precise aesthetic path.
As an expert traveler, she had several occasions of confronting herself with different cultures and it was precisely during one of her travels that her artistic journey began. However, what could be defined a specific area of action - that of travel reportage - did not seem to completely satisfy Zambon: to the narrative rhythm and synthesis of the story she immediately preferred the meticulous investigation of details, the taste for the chromatic contrasts found in landscapes as in people's faces, the attention to unusual architectural and non-architectural geometries.
It was in this initial phase of her research that Romana Zambon deepened her essential technical and aesthetic knowledge, refining her sense of composition without ever abandoning either her immediate approach to subjects or the taste for spectacularism that would later emerge as a central feature of her style.
This last aspect distinguishes the following works, which also evolve in opposite directions: on the one hand, the investigation of old motorcycles taken as if they were sculptures that stand out against the black background, displaying colours and rust as elements of an evident materiality, and on the other, the research on flowers dominated by a persuasive plasticity and a taste for detail that borders on abstraction.
A further step led the photographer to dialectically merge the two previous results and to create, "Reflections", a work on urban space. Reflectionsis about the deformations of images as a result of their reflections on the metal surface of a sculpture as if to reiterate that every abstraction is nothing more than an underlining of the subjective gaze of those who look and interpret reality. It is a motif that returns in a further research set in the marble quarries transformed into an imposing and icy theatrical environment where the spectacularism is now combined with the echo of a declared surrealism.
Romana Zambon keeps working on the concept of space, but in recent times she has shifted her attention from macro sizes to micro ones, from the landscape to the still life, and she does so once preserve the characteristics of previous styles. In her new works, she composes in a thousand variations a series of bottles with beautiful shapes playing in the same measure with colors, shadows, transparencies, lights, volumes, unpredictable combinations, to arrive at photographs that are characterized by their originality and that help us to look at the world with the same curiosity with him observes the author.
(ROBERTO MUTTI)
The career of photographer Romana Zambon, Milanese by adoption, architect and lover of photography, began with some participation in charity auctions.
"I've always been attracted by the power of colour that I associate with various moods" says Romana when she talks about her passion for photography which she has transformed into a profession and continues explaining that "this element, together with the harmony of forms, strikes my attention and turns it into a snapshot, in an instant, into photography".
2020
MIA PHOTO FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, the Mall, Varesine, Milano
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Superstudio Più, Milano
2019
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Milano
OVER THE TOP-collettiva-con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Biciclette Art Gallery, Milano
SCUSATE IL DISTURBO, asta benefica, a cura di R. Farinotti, PAC, Milano
CLASSIC CAR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, RossArt gallery, Zurigo
LUCCA ART FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Lucca
CLASSIC CAR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Dolder hotel, Zurigo
PHOTOFESTIVAL con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, a cura di R.Mutti, Biciclette Art Gallery, Milano
FLOWERS –collettiva- con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, con Mia Photo Fair, Museo del paesaggio, Verbania
MIA PHOTO FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, the Mall, Varesine, Milano
IL PASSATO ALLA LUCE DEL PRESENTE con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, a cura di R.Mutti, Antico Oratorio della Passione di S.Ambrogio, Milano
OVER THE TOP -collettiva- galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Milano
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Superstudio Più, Milano
2018
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s, Triennale, Milano
SCUSATE IL DISTURBO, asta benefica, a cura di R. Farinotti, PAC, Milano
Asta 1918 – FOTOGRAFIA, asta Finarte, Milano
14 anni, B-DAY!- collettiva- galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Milano
PARMA PER GLI ALTRI- PROGETTO K’ELEMI, asta benefica, Parma
UNIMAGINABLE -collettiva- white garage studio, Milano
MIA PHOTO FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, the Mall-Porta Nuova, Milano
2017
RIFLESSI, a cura di R. Mutti, galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Milano
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s, Triennale, Milano
RIFLESSI, testi di R. Mutti, Die Mauer arte contemporanea, Prato
JUNK FOOD –collettiva -a cura di F.Barbi Marinetti, Margutta Art Gallery, Roma
CHI E’ FELICE HA RAGIONE -collettiva- galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Milano
SCULTURE VIVENTI -collettiva- a cura di C. Ciana, La stanza del vento, Montemarcello
MIA PHOTO FAIR con galleria Federica Ghizzoni, the Mall-Porta Nuova, Milano
2016
50x50, asta benefica, galleria Cavour, Padova
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s,Triennale,Milano
SCUSATE IL DISTURBO, asta benefica, a cura di R. Farinotti, PAC, Milano
ACQUA|ARIA|TERRA|FUOCO, a cura di R.Mutti e di A.Golizia, galleria Federica Ghizzoni, Milano
2015
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s, Triennale, Milano
PRIMA DELLA PRIMA, asta benefica Finarte, a cura di R.Mutti, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milano
2014
SCATTI PER BENE, asta benefica, Sotheby’s, Palazzo Broggi, Milano
SCUSATE IL DISTURBO, asta benefica, a cura di R. Farinotti, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milano
DESIGN WEEK -con Ferrarelle- Triennale, Milano
La fotografia senza titolo#17 è stata una delle 15 opere selezionate da BNL per a curator’s guide, al Mia Photo Fair 2017.
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