Andreas Zampella Turns Everyday Objects into a Starry Sky at Galleria Poggiali

Curator Nicolas Ballario invited artist Andreas Zampella (Salerno, 1989) to create a total installation at Galleria Poggiali in Milan, transforming the gallery into an artificial firmament made from discarded everyday objects. The immersive piece forces visitors to look upward, re-enacting an ancestral relationship with the infinite. Zampella, who describes himself as an anthropologist of the present, collects fragments of daily life—bottles, brushes, forgotten remote controls—and suspends them in a tableau vivant. His practice reinterprets still life through a semantic gap: where Italian 'natura morta' implies death, English 'still life' and German 'Stilleben' suggest a silent, persistent existence. The artist layers objects onto canvas, preserving their wear and history while adding personal motifs like migrating insects and mosquito swarms forming a heart. Works incorporate items from friends, flea markets, and family drawers, creating a stratified memoir of affective archaeology.