“Sam Vickers' works visually translate the need of perceiving art as a sign of effective change through coherent concepts inspired by social media. On his crusade into "exile", the British artist renews a pictorial language with the refinement of the material provocatively transformed only by time […] Sam Vickers seeks the avant-garde in the 21st century, as many of his fellow artists did in the 20th from Fontana to Burri, through the tendency to recognize matter’s fundamental meaning - that it is no longer subordinate to the image being represented, as it is the very same protagonist of the work.”

A.Allocco ATB Gallery

British artist Sam Vickers produces systematic, conceptual work that focuses on the manipulation of his environment, the process of making and the ironies contained therein. He largely takes his cues and influences from postmodernist American and European artists of the 1970s, his pieces deal with the perception of our own structural reality and the chosen materials derive from what each concept signifies.

A recent recent piece, “Choice Material”, is an experiment into ‘non-art as art’ in the social media age.   

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Vickers was born in Yorkshire in 1987. He studied Sculpture at Bath Spa University under Roger Clarke and Mariele Neudecker and graduated in 2010. After a period as an assistant at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park he relocated to London in 2012 and worked within the music industry, namely playing the drums for several groups and producing indie record sleeves as a new artistic direction. He also produced artwork and short films for the podcast ‘Five Minutes of Doubt’. As a result, an inherently graphic sensibility has developed within his work. In 2017, Vickers began a new body of independent work after moving to Turin, Italy; the city which features prominently within the histories of Metaphysical Art and Arte Povera. Consequently, the new environment and his continued interest in Conceptualism manifested themselves in a broad range of artistic styles.

In 2018, the installation entitled “Associated Blanks” and the photographic work, “P to S” were exhibited at the Cavallerizza Reale, Turin and at the Millepiani Gallery, Rome. He was also selected to work as part of the exhibition management team at Paratissima 14: Feeling Different at the Caserma La Marmora, Turin, later that same year.

2019 saw the release of “Five Minutes of Doubt-Series Three” to a wider online audience and the debut showing of “Monument to the European Union” at HERE 4, Turin.

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The Covid years have manifested themselves with a string of virtual exhibitions for White Rectangle, The Virtual Art Fair and artist essay publication with ATB Torino.

2021 culminated in his first solo exhibition “Raccolta da un Esilio” at ATB Gallery, Turin.

For the exhibition’s critical review by Alessandro Allocco click here

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