Davide Zucco
DEBRIS
Opening: Thursday 30.04. 6pm
30.04. - 06.06.2026
#1 related to memory
01./02./03. May: part of Sellerie Weekend Berlin
Davide Zucco’s DEBRIS series occupies a singular position within his practice, at once departing from and deepening a set of concerns that have long animated his work. If earlier pieces often seemed to emerge from a temporal and symbolic field suggestive of archaic memory—surfaces recalling geological strata, signs suspended between hieroglyph, rune, vegetal growth, and animal trace—DEBRIS shifts that same sensibility inward, toward the studio itself as a site of accumulation, retention, and return.
Here, memory does not operate as image alone, nor as iconographic allusion, but as material fact. The works are composed entirely of residual matter: cast-offs, fragments, overflows, and discarded elements generated through Zucco’s own studio processes. What would elsewhere remain peripheral to the work appears as its central condition.
Here, memory does not operate as image alone, nor as iconographic allusion, but as material fact. The works are composed entirely of residual matter: cast-offs, fragments, overflows, and discarded elements generated through Zucco’s own studio processes. What would elsewhere remain peripheral to the work appears as its central condition.
(Excerpt from an essay by Marco Antonini)