Sprofonda ovunque. Jacopo Zambello - Until 7 March
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Gallery 10 & zero uno is pleased to present Sprofonda ovunque (Sinking Everywhere), the first solo exhibition by Jacopo Zambello (Rovigo, 1999).
The exhibition is introduced through the words of the curator, Niccolò Giacomazzi:
“The artist presents bodies immersed in padded, domestic interiors, where comfort ceases to be a promise and becomes an obstacle. Mattresses, armchairs, and fabrics merge with the figure, at times offering support, at others a void, as if the room possessed its own gravity. The male subjects inhabiting Zambello’s paintings seem to discover a desire and are in search of an otherness. In this process I end up sinking everywhere, where proximity to things also becomes a motive for surrender. The various textures of the floors, the weaves and patterns of the sheets take part in the creation of a real imaginary, while the bodies appear almost stripped of emphasis, drained and weakened. Light, too, works by subtraction. It inhabits the shadows and fades at the edges, blurring skin and furnishings. This otherness is always present, even if opaque, and arises from a circumscribed intimacy that becomes comprehensible only by passing through the body itself”.
The gallery becomes the stage for an intimate, everyday narrative set between the bedroom and the walk-in wardrobe. As the protagonist leaves this environment, he decides to rid himself of everything he perceives as oppressive: furniture, clothes, and his own works are uploaded onto an online resale platform (Vinted).
The former butcher’s shop at Via Garibaldi 1830 thus transforms once again to accompany the works of Jacopo Zambbello, constructing the exhibition’s narrative together with them and adhering to the artist’s installation-based vision, in which the space itself becomes a co-protagonist.
Working with a language that moves between painting and drawing, Zambello addresses
themes of perception and aims to bring out the impossibility of a single, univocal
understanding of reality.
As he himself states: “This perceptual fracture generates a sense of
“horror vacui”, highlighting the paradoxical presence of a common thread that connects the
multiple human experiences. This research feeds on dialogue with psychology, neurology, and literature—authors such as Borges, Inoue, and Kawabata—as well as cinema and other narrative media.”
Sprofonda ovunque thus takes shape as an immersive and sensitive experience, in which space, bodies, and surfaces work together to convey a layered vision of intimacy and perception. A journey that invites the viewer to linger in that opaque and unstable zone where the body becomes measure, filter, and the very site of vision.
SPROFONDA OVUNQUE
Jacopo Zambello
curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi
Until March 7th, 2026
10 & zero uno, Castello 1830, via Garibaldi, Venice
BIO
Jacopo Zambello (1999, Rovigo)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 2022, he won the Painting section of the 14th edition of the Nocivelli Prize. In 2023, he received the Martini International Award at the San Fedele Visual Arts Prize and was included in the book 222 Artists to Invest In, published by Exibart. He was an atelier resident at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice for the 2023–24 term. In 2025, he was among the winners of the eighth edition of We Art Open.
His work has been exhibited in numerous shows, including: (2025)
Do I Bother?, Rumi Art Space, Dongo (CO); L’Amore che Facciamo, Ego Project Space, Milan; Qui Giace un Fulmine Caduto, Galeria Nueva, Madrid, Spain; New Art Frontiers, Altro Mondo Creative Space, Makai City, Philippines; (2024) Campo Magnetico, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation – Palazzetto Tito, Venice; La prima volta, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (MI); Chi sono io – Indagini sul corpo, Galleria San Fedele, Milan; Uscita Pistoia #1, Spazio A, Pistoia; (2023) Antares, Magazzini del Sale, Venice; (2022) Le Stanze del Contemporaneo, Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia.