Menhir Contemporary Art is pleased to announce “SCORDÌA”, personal exhibition of the artist Sebastiano Sofia.

SCORDÌA, a Sicilian town in the province of Catania, is the place where the artist founds his roots, where he goes to "hide" with the aim of rediscovering that authentic primordial genuineness; the landscape is looked at not only with the eyes but with the whole body, trying to breathe it. This exercise led to the creation of the exhibition. According to the artist, existence is generated by a desire, by an ambition: hunting, mating, feeding, are natural and primal needs. Accepting the simplicity of these actions creates and changes human doing. The works on show, both in the characters and in the technique with which they are created, explore the attempt to represent that rediscovered simplicity; paintings and sculptures blend, they look, play and form the background for each other: where the paintings frame the sculptural works, these in turn recall their details.

Sebastiano Sofia (Verona - Italy, 1986) .Lives and works between Milan and Venice.

Transience and movement are metaphors that transpire from the material worked by Sofia, who constantly seeks to subvert the categories of species and gender. Sofia was selected in 2013 for the residency program Viafarini, Milan. In 2015, he joined in the artist’s residence at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. Since 2014 he has participated at important collectives and individual exhibitions in Italy and in the United Arab Emirates, including “Anemone” at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, “Natural Metamorphosis” at the Fatma Lutha Gallery in Dubai and, in 2018, he presents an end-of-residency personal exhibition at the Maraya Art Center in Sharjah.