Sadie Clayton Andrea Sampaolo
London Fashion Week September 2016 Sadie Clayton Andrea Sampaolo
Le Dame Art Gallery at Meliá White House & Cafe Royal
Miami Art Basel December 2016
Frau Atlantica - Winwood
Andrea Sampaolo visual artist
Sadie Clayton fashion designer
Le Dame Art Gallery are proud to present Abstract featuring visual artist Andrea Sampaolo and fashion designer Sadie Clayton together for the most glamorous event held in London and in Miami during the most exciting season of the London Fashion Week and Miami Art Basel.
The jumbled arrangement of the color Abstraction, a contemporaneous, modern revolution, engulfs me for its spontaneity and simplicity which in turns translates into instinct and anarchy meant as a free approach to the canvas. Passion, curiosity together with the energetic mysticism of the color, all lead me through the images which through the use of contemporary multimedia means, have the power to express in synthesis my dreams. Entropy meant as the expression of the degree of disorder or lack of order of a system, together with the imagination, as wide as the entity of the solar system, altogether connected in this system of order/lack of order make the artistic expression untouched by pragmatic principles and rules as they are the expression the spontaneity of the stroke.
September 2016
Le Dame Art Gallery at Meliá White House Albany ST, Regent’s Park 1 - 30 September 2016
Cafe Royale Regent’s Street 15 September 2016
December 2016
Frau Atlantica Design District Miami December 2016
Andrea Sampaolo Andrea was born in Rome, on March 27th 1966. He graduated in Art in 1983 and ran his career as painter since 1989. However, his keen interest in visual installations and performances as well as in media and design rose up very soon. Although his research is much concerned with experimental painting, Sampaolo’s vocation to eclecticism has enabled him to challenge the changes throughout the years. He got close to the Underground musical movement in Rome and Italian jazz. Between 1989-93, he thus performed live music and painting in Rome at the Ulisse and A.C.E.A T. theatres as well as at the Palombara Castle, Sabina.
More recently, he has performed music and painting with sax player and composer Javier Girotto. In 1998, he took a diploma in Graphic Design. In the following years, he produced advertising videos and short films (in 2004 he directed a cartoon). In 2000, he created his own art gallery in Rome and launched his own creative media company. He collaborated with prestigious brands and fashion houses as a designer. It is particularly worth mentioning his design projects to Nokia mobile’s covers (1999), Slamp’s special edition of lamps (2001), and background scenes commissioned by Ferrone’s top-fashion house. He also drew on his work patterns to design fashion shoes (2010) and bags. In 2003, he organised Benetton’s live show-room where he also performed as an artist.
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 - “Re-Life” Fondazione Bertelli Forte dei Marmi (Lucca) – Italy 2013 – “Ghost Dog” Work for Norcia (Perugia) – Italy 2013 - “American Again” Unix Gallery Chelsea (New York) - U.S.A. 2010 - “American” Poltrona Frau (Miami) - U.S.A. 2009 - “Free Zone” (Rome) - Italy 2007 - “Tessendo Colore” Banca Sella (Milan, Bologna, Ascoli Piceno) Italy 2007 - “Action painting” Galleria D’Arte 3/5 contemporanea (Rieti) - Italy 2002 - “Astratto fermentato In Design” Grit Art Gallery (Rome) – Italy
Selected Collective Exhibitions 2013 - “Art Southampton” Long Island (New York) - U.S.A. 2012 – “El impulso y la sorpresa del color” Galerìa L. Haber (Buenos Aires) - Argentina 2012 - “Art Miami” Unix Fine Art Gallery (Miami) - U.S.A. 2012 - “Postignano Art Project” Residency(Umbria) - Italy 2012 - “Art Southampton” Unix Fine Art Gallery (New York) - U.S.A. 2012 - “Art Americas” (Miami) - U.S.A. 2010 - “Tessendo colore”, Project and tour -Italy 2009 - Kaunas Art Biennial TEXTILE 09 Live Examination” - Lithuania 2008 - “Recycle Art” Simposio World Art Delft - Holland 2008 - “AreaO”, Banca Sella – (Ferrara) - Italy 2008 - “Expo Nice, Espace Art” – (Nice) - France 2007 - “Simposio Internazionale di Pittura” (Maillniz) - Austria 2007 - “Made in Italy”, Galleria Am Roten Hof – (Vienna) - Austria
Extras 2013 – “Design Emotion” Commissioned by Material Connexion - Italy 2012 – “Miami Tennis Cup” (Commissioned by Miami Tennis Club - Miami) U.S.A. 2012 – “Cromatismi sonori” Salón Auditorio Colegio Champagnat (Performance-Buenos Aires) - Argentina 2011 - “Meridiana Contemporanea” (Commissioned by Poltrona Frau Atlantic – Miami) - U.S.A. 2011 - “American” Poltrona Frau Atlantic (Performance - Miami) - U.S.A. 2010 - “Telamente – In Design” Studio Le Bain (Rome) - Italy 2010 - “Cromatismi sonori: Javier Girotto & Andrea Sampaolo”(Performance -Lanificio 159 - Rome) - Italy 2003 - “Wishes come true” (Commissioned by Benetton - Rome) - Italy 2002 - “Scende la scarpa dal muro” Roma-New York Collection collab. Lincoln Design (Grit Art Gallery - Rome) - Italy
Graffiti 2012 - 1ofk – Miami – U.S.A. 2011 – The Winwood Wall– Miami – U.S.A.
Pubblications Inside Art – Cosmopolitan – Miami News Times – Il Messaggero
Sadie Clayton Sadie Clayton is a luxury sculptural womenswear label representing a unique aesthetic in the British fashion scene. The designer’s architectural approach sees avant-garde shapes, manipulating industrial materials and silhouettes to fit the female form. The designer’s signature fabric - and the stone that brings good luck - copper, is prevalent within her collections as is copper sheeting, which has been hammered and heated for a progressive finish. Sadie also has a personal spirituality which she draws on coming from the metaphysical properties of stones, and physiognomy. Themes which have been translated into her garments through their voluminous shapes, or constraints and twisted proportions. The fabrics replicate the texture and composition of the crystals. The eponymous line was launched in 2014 after graduating from Kingston University in 2013 and exhibiting at Graduate Fashion Week, Clayton has gone on to show on the catwalks of London and Berlin and showcasing her ss16 collection at London Fashion Week at the Royal Academy of the Arts. Sadie’s upcoming aw 16 collection will be presented at the Cafe Royal London.
Sadie has demonstrated the art of working with copper metals as a part of the Nick Waplington / Alexander McQueen: Working Process exhibition at the Tate Britain, led a workshop at the Tate Modern and was one of 15 designers chosen from across the world to show at the Artisanal Intelligence exhibition part of AltaRoma. Sadie Clayton has been worn by the likes of Skin, Fleur East, Ellie Goulding, Caryn Franklin and has featured in Vogue, Vogue Italia, Elle Italia, Grazia, i-D, Wonderland, Noctis, Schön!, 1883, and more. The designer has collaborated with esteemed creative individuals and brands such as cordwainer Charlene Ong, photographer Mark Lebon, Jeweller Andrew Logan, United Nude, and the Tate. Sadie has recently collaborated with Nixon the global watch brand customising watches and also gained a product sponsorship from Swarovski.
SeAchievements 2016 – Exhibited at the Artisanal Intelligence exhibition part of AltaRoma 2015 – Demonstrated to an audience of 300 my working process with copper metal as part of the of the Nick Waplington / Alexander McQueen: Working Process exhibition at Tate Britain. 2015 – Lead a workshop to demonstrate how to make jewellery from copper saddles at Tate Modern 2015 - Exhibited as one of the best emerging designers at Fashion Scout 2015 - Sponsored to showcase at Berlin Fashion Week 2015 – Showed retrospective at Gibraltar Fashion Runway 2013 - Won second place innovation award at GFW 2012 - A winner of a print design competition for Eley Kishimoto
Publications 2016 – Vogue Italia Haute Couture, Grazia, vogue.com 2015 – id, Vogue.com, Wonderland, Shon, instyle, Elle, Velvet, Noctis, Cent, C-Homme 2014 – Wonderland, 1883, Candid
Collaborations A/W 2016 Master tailors WG Childs & Sons - trousers, Rose Robson taxidermist - collar, Francesco Ballestrazzi - hats, Swarovski - crystals, Nixon - watches, United Nude – shoes, Darren Gerrish - photographer S/S 2016 United Nude – shoes, Andrew Logan - jewellery, Monique Lee - headpieces, Charlene Ong. – shoes, Beth Jones - knitwear, Ki Price - photographer
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