Filippo Di Sambuy Biography
Filippo De Sambuy was born in Rome in 1965 and graduated in Semiology. In 1981, he obtained a scholarship at PS1 in New York and began his research journey in the field of visual arts. Between the 80s and 90s, he exhibited in numerous collective and personal exhibitions characterized by impressive installations of pictorial works. His interest in the nature of symbolism as a bridge between an invisible truth and a form capable of giving it sensitive consistency led him to dedicate himself, starting from the second half of the 1990s, to the theme of the relationship between profane image and its transcendence.
Between 1995 and 2004, he continued his research with large installations in architectural spaces in which the theme of the symbol is closely connected to the place. Thus was born the large installation of heraldic flags and floor mosaic at the Palazzina di Caccia in Stupinigi. Between 2005 and 2012, he participated in numerous group exhibitions, in which he exhibited his artistic works. In 2016, he intervened in Palermo in the magnificent spaces of Palazzo Reale and the Riso Museum. In 2018, he presented the new elaborate pictorial cycle "Il libro dello Splendore", inspired by the ancient and the volume "Zohar", at Photo&Contemporary in Turin.
Sambuy approaches the themes of the Zohar through the schemes dedicated to that Tree of Life which is one of the symbols around which the entire Jewish identity revolves. In 2019, he created a mosaic in the Ballarò market in Palermo, reconstructing the figure of S. Rosalia in the Santa Maria del Soccorso church.
