I live in constant fear of the Western descent into . But I digress. The club is bumping, the alcohol is flowing, everybody looks good. There is much pain in the world but not in this room.

Book published by AXIS AXIS (Torino, 2023) and designed by Federico Antonini, in conjunction with the exhibition curated by Christy Eóin O’Beirne, Katherine Jemima Hamilton, Ariane Sutthavong and coordinated by Michele Bertolino at Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene.

The Milk of Dreams / Il latte dei sogni

Catalogue of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Edited by Cecilia Alemani. Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, Londra. Ed. La Biennale di Venezia, 2022.

Per un’iconografia del riposo. La mise-en-geste di Sara Enrico

Annalisa Pellino Flash Art #357 Estate 2022

GO THEN, AND SPRINKLE THAT DUST TO DUST IN THE GRAND CANAL

Feature by Costanza Falco Raez Flaunt Magazine, 2022

STUDIO CLUB. Sara Enrico by Clara Mazzoleni

Rivista Studio #50, 2022

Giovanna Manzotti features RGB (skin), 2021 | collection of MACTE, Termoli

Project Room #5 | Sara Enrico e Fabio Quaranta

Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van Den Broeck, Milano 28 June - 24 October, 2021

Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck presents PROJECT ROOM #5, a collaboration between the artist Sara Enrico and the fashion designer Fabio Quaranta, inspired, as usual, by the work of the Italo-Belgian fashion designer and artist Pharaildis Van den Broeck (1952-2014). For this exhibition, Enrico and Quaranta carried out careful research on Van den Broeck’s work from the ’90s. Starting [...]

Il Crepaccio Instagram Show, 2018

Special project commissioned by Il Crepaccio and curated by Caroline Corbetta. IL CREPACCIO INSTAGRAM SHOW – 1 artist/5 days/a work a day – is open! Every week, from Monday to Friday, on Il Crepaccio’s Instagram account there is an unprecedented solo show composed of five new contributions commissioned to an artist by @ilcrepaccio. As of Monday 13 November 2017, il Crepaccio has [...]

MacGuffin as a bottle / a bottle as a MacGuffin

Menabrea Art Prize 2017

Menabrea Art Prize was founded in 2011 by Untitled Association and Birra Menabrea. There are two men on a train. One says to the other: “What is that parcel you put on the luggage rack?” The other: “Oh that, it’s a MacGuffin.” Then the first one: “What’s a MacGuffin?”. The other: “It’s a device to catch the lions on the Adirondack Mountains.” The first one: “But there are [...]

Trigger Party IV

Marsèlleria, Milano, 2016

Trigger Parties are gatherings of artists and other personalities invited to participate with an original intervention conceived as a trigger regarding the themes which characterize their practice. A series of monthly happenings aiming to initiate a public and cross-disciplinary discussion where the audience is invited to participate and directly exchange views with the guests. Trigger Party IV [...]

Laboratorio del Dubbio

c/o Tool Box, Torino, 2016

The Laboratory of Doubt / Seven Months of Cross-disciplinary Experiments is driven by an idiosyncratic and dialoguing “band apart”: a scientist, an architect, two artists, and one writer. In the Laboratory of Doubt, everything should be different from what it could be, and everything will have to be challenged – everything except the ability to raise new questions. In the evening, before [...]

Teatrum Botanicum

PAV Parco d'Arte Vivente, Torino, 2016

Teatrum Botanucum non vuole essere una mostra convenzionale, ma un vero e proprio festival costituito da molteplici interventi: pratiche performative, proiezioni, talk e performance-lectures, dj set e live set. Al contrario, è il concept stesso di Teatrum Botanicum che va plasmandosi a posteriori, agendo da aggregatore tra i vari interventi ricevuti, creando diversi percorsi attraverso lo [...]

I live in constant fear of the Western descent into . But I digress. The club is bumping, the alcohol is flowing, everybody looks good. There is much pain in the world but not in this room.

Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene

6 May23 July, 2023

Curated by Christy Eóin O’Beirne, Katherine Jemima Hamilton, Ariane Sutthavong, coordinated by Michele Bertolino

Artists: Enrico Boccioletti, Sara Enrico, Stefano Faoro, Benedetta Fioravanti, Rebecca Moccia, Valentina Parati.

FOCUS ON: Sara Enrico, Asli Çavuşoğlu

Vistamare, Milan

15 December25 February, 2023

Vistamare is pleased to present Focus on. A new series of projects that, in conjunction with the regular gallery program in Milan, invite artists to create new site specific works specially conceived [...]

The Milk of Dreams / Il latte dei sogni

59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

23 April27 November, 2022

curated by Cecilia Alemani

RGB (skin), 2021

MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Termoli

La realizzazione di RGB (skin) e il suo ingresso nel museo sono stati possibili grazie a Cantica21. Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, un’iniziativa congiunta del Ministero della Cultura ed il [...]

SKRODERIDER

Billytown, The Hague

3 September18 December, 2021

The Kitchen invites the curatorial platform Lie Lay Lain from New York as part of Palm Tree with works by Joseph Buckley, Sara Enrico, Viola Yesiltac, and Erin Johnson

“Motion into Being” Reframed

Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien

13 July18 September, 2021

curated by Bettina Brunner
with Anna Craycroft, Ericka Beckman, Sara Enrico, Elisabeth Kihlström, Laure Prouvost, Sofie Thorsen

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News

Tainted Lovers, curated by Samuele Piazza, OGR Torino (3 November – 10 December 2023)

Present Future, curated by Saim Demircan and Maurine Dietrich, w/ Vistamare, Artissima (2 – 5 November 2023)

Contacts

Vistamare, Milano / Pescara

Biography

Sara Enrico (1979, IT) lives in Torino.

She has exhibited her works in Italy and abroad, including: 59^th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia; Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien; American Academy in Rome; Národní galerie Praha, Prague; Mart, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Centrale Fies Art Work Space, Dro; OFF Biennale Cairo, Cairo; Marsèlleria, New York; PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino; Biennale Internazionale Arte in Memoria, Sinagoga, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica (Roma); Les Instants Chavirès, Montreuil (Paris); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como; and Galleria d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, amongts others.

She is the recipient of the 2021 Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome and she gained Premio Michetti in 2020.
She received a production grant for Cantica21, in collaboration with MACTE, Termoli; in 2018 a grant from the IV edition of the Italian Council, a competition ideated by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) – the organ of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
In 2017 recipient of the New York Prize, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIBACT), the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies Columbia University, and in residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. In the same year, she won the Menabrea Art Prize.

Co-founder of Laboratorio del Dubbio, a series of residencies and a cross-disciplinary platform developed into seven chapters (Turin, 2016). She took part in Progetto Diogene, between 2008 and 2012, as an artistic self-identity group of people working together. Located in an old tram carriage in the middle of a roundabout of the public space of Turin, the project runs as an international residency program, talks, and events. She studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Turin and at the Istituto Spinelli in Florence, where she attended training in the restoration of ancient paintings and frescoes. She is a professor of Painting/Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo.

Contact

sa.enrico@gmail.com

Website Credits

Siliqoon Agency

Collection

RGB (skin), 2021

MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Termoli

La realizzazione di RGB (skin) e il suo ingresso nel museo sono stati possibili grazie a Cantica21. Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, un’iniziativa congiunta del Ministero della Cultura ed il Ministero degli Esteri (MAECI-DGSP/MiC-DGCC, 2020).

Media & Link

Testo di Giovanna Manzotti (Link) Text by Giovanna Manzotti (Link)

Collezione permanente, MACTE, Foto di Gianluca Di Ioia
Da sinistra: Sara Enrico, Pilar Lacruz
Collezione permanente, MACTE, Foto di Gianluca Di Ioia
RGB (skin), 2021
stampa a sublimazione su tessuto poliestere, gommapiuma
130 x 140 x 54 cmciascuno
RGB (skin), 2021 (dettaglio)
RGB (skin), 2021
sublimation printing on polyester fabric, foam rubber
130 x 140 x 54 cm each
ph. Cristina Leoncini
RGB (skin), 2021
sublimation printing on polyester fabric, foam rubber
130 x 140 x 54 cm each
ph. Cristina Leoncini