Thomas Brambilla Gallery is proud to present the exhibition titled “Spaziale!”, hosting the works from two Italian Artists, Andrea Kvas and Erik Saglia. The show opens on Friday February 11th, 2022 at 6:30 PM.

“Spaziale!” will present ten large sculptural and pictorial artworks resulting from the artistic meeting and exchange between two painters from the same generation, yet with completely different backgrounds and personal histories.

Andrea Kvas and Erik Saglia were inspired by Marquise Rambouillet’s literary salon. The Marquise opened the first literary salon in her Parisian Hotel, Hotel de Rambouillet, in 1618. Bored by King HenryV’s royal court, she decided to receive her friends in a specially designed room called chambre bleue (or blue room). For more than forty years, authors, poets, and artists showed cunningness, wisdom, and gossip, inaugurating that conversational art which, during the Eighteenth Century, will bring life to Illuminism and, consequently, to the modern world.

Kvas e Saglia decided to begin from a conversation and a physical place, where to weave not only words but also discussions, colours, advice, materials, exhibitions, recipes, videos, books, pigments, resins, hydro-paint, additives, albums, ASMR, films, memes, and spaghetti. Weekly meetings have taken place in the studio, located in Via Ponti in the city of Milan. There, they created a small, intimate, and narrow salon occasionally open to others, in which the art of conversation, just as in Madame de Rambouillet’schambre bleue, tried to gain back its original form, made of bodies, glances, and spoken words. The result was the creation of an artistic bond and a close dialogue made of the search for new pictorial and technical challenges, carried out with humour and warmth.

The salon, or the closed room, progressively dilated until it reached today’s paroxysm of a placeless instantaneity, and until it enclosed every moment of our existence. Not a meeting anymore, not a place, but a continuous stream of questions, answers, and observations.
Andrea Kvas

Andrea Kvas is born in Trieste in 1986. He lives and works in Milano. Kvas’ solo shows include: Coppiette, Ice Cream Shop Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, 2020; Staring Contest, ErmesErmes, Vienna, 2015; Boy with bucket, Chert, Berlin, 2013; Campo, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, 2012. He has also exhibited in several group exhibitions, such as: # 80 # 90, Villa Medici, Rome, 2019; SUperHost, Like a little disaster + PaneProject, Polignano, 2019; Supervulcanos, Tarsia, Naples, 2019; That's IT !, MAMbo, Bologna, 2018, Blac Ilid, Fondazione Smart, Roma, 2020-2021. Kvas has also took part in several special projects: Project Room # 3, Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck, Milan, 2019; The fright of the earth, Clima Gallery, Milan, 2018; Green Woodpecker and Dopapine, Masaccio House, San Giovanni Valdarno, 2014; Laboratory, MACRO, Rome, 2011, Laboratory, Brown Project Space, 2010.

Erik Saglia

Erik Saglia was born 1989 in Turin, where he lives and works. He studied at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin and he graduates in 2014.
He has already participated at several group shows, among all: Too big or not too big at Thomas Brambilla Gallery (2013), Sphères at Galleria Continua Les Moulins in Paris (2014), Face to Face at Palazzo Fruscione (2016), Allenamento #1 at Basis Frankfurt (2018), Sabaudade at Las Palmas, Lisbona (2019), My Bluberry Night II at the Ex Ateneo, Bergamo (2019), Looklock, Palazzo Ercolani, Bologna (2020), Collezione (in) particolare, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Lissone (2020); PITTURA IN PERSONA, Complesso monumentale di San Francesco, Castello di Rivoli / Fondazione CRC, Cuneo (2021) and many others. He held his first solo show SNIFFINGLUE at Thomas Brambilla Gallery in 2014, and later he had a solo show, A.E Abstract Existence at BACO (2015) and Ceiling 1 at Tile Project (2016) Spazio Buonasera, Torino (2017), Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo (2017), Palazzo Lancia, Torino (2018) and at Spazio Lampo in Chiasso (2020). In 2016 he had his second solo show at Thomas Brambilla gallery.