Schiavo Mazzonis Gallery

Born in Como, Italy in 1976, lives and works between Milan and Montreal. After his Diploma at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, he starts taking part in exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In "Con Altri Occhi" in 2006, (Milano, Palazzo della Ragione, curated by Roberto Pinto e Katia Anguelova) Sala presented a work titled ‘Walk around', a sculptural elaboration of the city of Milan's topographic map. At the IX Architecture Biennial in Venice in 2004, his work ‘All21', was a reprocessing of an installation by designer Achille Castiglioni for the 1954 Milan Triennial. In the exhibition ‘Exit', curated by Francesco Bonami at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 2002, the work ‘Untited (Villa Savoye)' was the maquette of the Le Corbusier project, built between 1928 and 1931.

"To find a new image in an existing form and to discover a different potentiality inside an object are fundamental aspects of my approach. I'm fascinated by the world of design and architecture. I work with design objects, architectural projects, images or works of other artists, trying to identify and capture a new functionality, a new scale, a new reality for them. I'm interested in the design practice: I add, subtract, work, and appropriate myself of something already existing, finding for it new potentialities and reshaping it in a new form and context".