PORCU sandro
Statement
Sandro Porcu - speculations from a tragic-comic perspective
Sandro Porcu presents the world with a humorous mirror in his figurative oeuvre. In the context of the current art market, he wants to question the status of things and their constitutive function. Everyday scenes are particularly suitable here. His modified plastic imitations take a clear position in the sense of a 'new realism'.
Curator Christian Gracza characterized Porcu with all his playful 'options' as a manipulator - an artist who is presented with the result of his works as a transformation in the viewer. Porcu speculates in his works on the voluntary devotion of the recipients and their will to expand their own perspective.
Some works bear the industrial charm of ready-made products. However, these works only underline their own commodity character and refer to their manipulation by the artist on closer inspection.
© based on the text by Katrin D. Herold M.A. Berlin, June 2014
Vita
| 1966 | born in Caltanissetta, Italy, lives and works in Kirschau (Upper Lusatia) |
| since 2013 | Cooperation with the gallery FLOX |
| PRIZES | |
| 2010 | Art sponsorship award, art grant Munich |
| 2009 | Laureate, Via Regia Sculptura Görlitz |
| GRANTS | |
| since 2011 | Working grant Bautzen |
| 2010 | Residency Scholarship, Közelítés Art Association, Pécs (Hungary) |
| 2010 | Residency Scholarship, Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel (Switzerland) |
| EDUCATION/STUDIES | |
| 2011 | Teaching position as artistic workshop leader at the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz |
| 2006-2007 | Assistant at Darren Almond Project "Terminus“ |
| 2005-2007 | Evening Academy, Academy for Graphics and Book Art (HGB), Leipzig |
| 1996-2011 | Studio in the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill / Baumwollspinnerei |
| since 1990 | freelance artist |
| 1982-1984 | Training as carbody designer |
Exhibitions (Solo and Group), Fairs
| FAIRS | |
| 2018/2019 | Kölner Liste DAF Frankfurt Affordable Art Fair Hamburg |
| 2017 | Berliner Liste Art International Zürich / Schweiz Affordable Art Fair Hamburg ART Düsseldorf ARTMUC München ART Innsbruck |
| 2016 | Affordable Art Fair Hamburg |
| 2015 | Berliner Liste Kölner Liste ART Innsbruck |
| 2014 | KIAF/14 – The 13th Korea International Art Fair / Seoul |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2016 | "MOMENTUM" - Klosterkirche- und Sakralmuseum St. Annen / Kamenz |
| 2015 | "JUSTUS" - Klosterkirche- und Sakralmuseum St. Annen / Kamenz |
| 2014 | "HEAD UP" - Galerie Potemka, Leipzig |
| 2013 | "VARIOUS" - Volksbank Bautzen |
| 2012 | "DROP CATCHER" - Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig |
| 2011 | "WORK SHOW EXHIBITION (1990 until 2011)" - FLOXfactory, Kirschau |
| 2009 | "HOT SHOT" - Galerie Sabine Salome Schwefel, Stuttgart |
| 2009 | "BUBBLE GUM" - Werkbank, Lana (IT) |
| 2008 | "MIO PAPERDRE" - Komet Berlin Galerie, Berlin |
| 2007 | "INTERMISSION" - Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig |
| 2005 | "OPTIONS" - Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTION |
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| 2019 | "KUNSTSPORTWEG / ART SPORTS TRAIL" - Museum Lotzwil, Lotzwil CH |
| 2019 | "AM RANDE DER GESELLSCHAFT / ON THE EDGE OF SOCIETY" - Stadtmuseum / Museum of the town, Bautzen |
| 2019 | "OPERATING SYSTEM TERROR" - Kraftwerk Mitte, Dresden |
| 2019 | "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" - Galerie Flox, Dresden |
| 2018 | "RELATIONS" - Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig |
| 2018 | "VERSTECKTE WAHRHEITEN / HIDDEN TRUTHS" - Galerie ArtMonopol, Salzburg |