Alessandro Bava
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zaza' is a contemporary art gallery based in Milan and Naples, founded by Alessandro Bava and run with Fabrizio Ballabio. Opened in Naples in 2019 and relocated to Milan in 2022, the gallery develops a program rooted in queer practices at the intersection of formalist and conceptual approaches, working with artists including Alessandro Di Pietro, Emanuele Marcuccio, SAGG Napoli, Giorgia Garzilli, Gina Fischli and Shaan Bevan, alongside selected historical positions and artist estates such as that of Sylvano Bussotti.

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Trailer for 'Il Mare' by Patroni Griffi

A stripped, sensual film where landscape, bodies, and silence carry the narrative; its restraint and Mediterranean atmosphere align closely with the sensibility we try to construct around zaza.

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Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner – An Epic Rivalry for the Ages

We relate to it as a study in competition and positioning: two parallel trajectories pushing each other forward, where discipline, timing, and psychological balance become as important as raw ability.

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Reza Abdoh – Sleeping with the Devil (1990)

A work that collapses theatre, film, and political urgency into a single queer form; it remains a model for how intensity and fragmentation can operate as a precise language rather than chaos.

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Rem Koolhaas & Herzog & de Meuron working on Astor Place Hotel

We chose it because it captures architecture as an artistic practice, not as finished image but as negotiation, authorship, and process, which is much closer to how we think about cultural production.