GABRIELE SILLI
Organo del Sommerso

From 9 February 2024
#Retrofuture

Gabriele Silli joins RETROFUTURE section, the collection of works by young Italian artists growing organically with time.

Organo del Sommerso is a hanging sculpture resulting from the incessant process of layering different elements. The process and the work open a philosophical reflection on the passing of time and the possibility of manipulating matter.

 


 

GABRIELE SILLI (Rome, 1982), graduated in Philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome in 2009. His artistic practice, always based on a philosophical framework, concerns matter and its possible transformations. Sculpture, video, performance and photography are all languages that he investigates through a process of assembling various elements. In 2004, he founded the collective Mastequoia. He is co-founder of Post Ex, Rome 2020. He has shown his works in solo exhibitions at: Galerie Mazzoli, Berlin; GAM, Rome, 2022; Giorgio Galotti Gallery, Turin, 2019; Via Macerata, Rome, 2018; Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; Viafarini, Milan 2014. Recent collective exhibition include: Galleria De Luca, Rome; Biennale di Gubbio; Galleria Mazzoli, Modena; Fondazione Baruchello, Rome; Straperetana, Pereto; AmericanAcademy in Rome, Rome; Hypermaremma, Capalbio. In 2021 he was the protagonist in the film Re Granchio by A. Rigo de Righi and M. Zoppis and in 2022 in the film Bassifondi by Trash Secco. He lives and works in Rome.