Sguario - Segnali di distanza

Signals of Distance (Signals of Distance)
Dimensions: 120 × 100 cm

Signals of Distance explores the contemporary inability to establish authentic connections. White forms emerge from the red as potential spaces for relationships: openings, windows, points of contact. Yet within them, the black marks remain closed and isolated, like presences unable to reach beyond themselves.

Red runs through the composition as an intense, almost invasive emotional and social substance. Rather than bringing elements together, it separates them; rather than building bridges, it establishes boundaries. Each element seems close to the others, yet none truly manages to connect. Physical proximity does not become belonging, and presence does not become dialogue.

Even where a variation in colour appears—a fragile possibility of openness or difference—it remains isolated, suspended within a context that offers it no place. The work thus becomes a psychological and social map of distance: a constellation of signals sent into the same space, yet never fully reaching one another.

Andrea Sguario (born in Soave, Verona, in 1991) is an Italian artist who lives and works in Verona. His practice explores abstract and gestural painting, primarily using acrylics and contrasting colours to investigate emotions, relationships and the perception of time. His compositions emerge through a spontaneous process in which mark-making and colour transform personal experience into a visual language open to the viewer’s interpretation.

His artistic training includes studies at the Brenzoni Art School, beginning in 2013, and one year in the Painting programme at the G.B. Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts in Verona in 2016. From 2018 to 2020, he was a member of the shared art studio Alta Tensione, taking part in group exhibitions and events.

In 2023, he was among the artists recognised by the jury in the Painting section of the 14th Premio Combat. This recognition is documented on the award’s official website and by Fondazione Livorno, with the selected artists scheduled for inclusion in the catalogue. His name also appears in the Premio Combat 2019 archive with the work “Stato interessante”.

His artistic practice is presented on Arte Laguna World and Arteaporte, through dedicated pages featuring his biography and works. His biography on Arte Laguna World also lists participation in Artefici del Nostro Tempo in 2019, the Volcana Festival that same year, and an international exhibition in Barcelona in 2022, as well as a feature in Art Now magazine in 2022.

In September 2025, Andrea Sguario participated in Lucca Art Fair, a modern and contemporary art fair held at the Real Collegio in Lucca, presenting his work “Ora” at the Moho Gallery stand.