Sara Zamperlin

“Since I was a child I have never been able to bear perfection…”

“I offer part of my very being to the other person and as I paint that person I relive their life with such intensity that the picture no longer appears static and instead speaks to the deepest part of me in quite an amazing way. I like talking to people, getting to know them, and taking part of them away with me. And if I find in them a desire to break out of normality and to really rise to that challenge with all their being, then they become by necessity an integral part of my work.”

Being Sara Zamperlin means being born in a hamlet of Legnago, called Porto, beyond the River Adige. Or over here. It depends on your point of view. It means being the daughter of two art lovers: my father, a carpenter always busy fashioning objects with his hands, and passionate about photography; my mother, a devourer of books. Both quick to grasp my bent for drawing. So much so that I managed to enroll on Signora Nelda’s adults-only course. I was 7 years old. I still remember the workshop’s rooms: the first one where one did drawing from life in pencil. The second, the one for oil painting, where only those who had reached a certain level were allowed. Its smell, the creaking o...

Sara Zamperlin was born in Legnago, a small city in the province of Verona with an important historical relevance capable of giving characteristic shape to those willing to live it to the fullest.
The artist began her training at the Castelmassa Institute of Applied Arts (l’Istituto d’Arte Applicata di Castelmassa) and followed with courses in antique dealing and restoration in which she received qualification as an expert in the conservation, preservation and restoration of classic works of art (Tecnico della Conservazione, Manutenzione e Restauro Beni Artistici).
During these critical years of development she began her unique search for a way to bring the arts of painting and restoration together. Experimenting with ever new materials, the artist found herself drawn to the subtle concepts of materialism in painting which influenced much of her work in this early period.
Later, a growing love of the visual arts found Sara drawn to the traditional approaches of photography. Material, painting techniques and photographic concepts came together to give birth to a new form of communication; a new style of painting. This represents a defining period for the artist when her works began to masterfully transmit the most deeply conceale...

• Collective exhibition october 2019 STILL LEBEN NATURA SILENTE exhibition at OnArt Gallery Firenze curator Romina Sangiovanni
• Collettive exhibition Jylu 2019 WOMENHOUSE exhibition at OnArt Gallery Firenze curatrice Romina Sangiovanni
• Personal exhibit october 2018 VIVENTI exhibition at Centro culturale La Medusa Este (Pd) curator Giancarlo Goldin • Publication of the book Sara Zamperlin written by Silvia Landi
• Personal exhibition may 2018 HANSEL E GRETEL LABIRINTI DI IDENTITA’ SMARRITE exhibition at ex macello (Vr)
• Personal exhibition Fotografia Europea circuito of Aprile 2018 The suicide of vegetables exhibition
• at Rebell Reggio Emilia
• Collettive exhibition april 2018 Vivi ed infiniti exhibition at Centro Culturale ZEROUNO Barletta curator Anna Soricaro
• Publication on the 1917-2017 VERITA’ E MENZOGNA l’arte contemporanea da Marc Chagal a oggi published by Arpinè Sevagin
• Publication on the ARTE CONTEMPORANEA written by Silvia Landi
• Collettive exhibition June 2017 CARTA exhibition at auditorium AGSM Verona My Home Gallery curator Eva Comuzzi
• Personal exhibit may 2017 TU 6 OZ. Luci e Ombre del meraviglioso Mago exhibition at Buro37 Legnago (VR)
• Personal exhibit January 2017 ALICE le fobie nel paese de...