Lorenzo Vitturi

LORENZO VITTURI (b 1980)

Lorenzo Vitturi (b. 1980, Venice, IT) works in photography, sculpture, and installation. Following his experience as a cinema set painter, Vitturi builds temporary sets and ephemeral sculptures inspired by specific geographical locations. Vitturi pays attention to places where phenomena of urban transformation and cultural hybridization are most visible. He collects objects, organic and fabricated materials, in which he sees evidence of different worlds colliding and which he translates into a practice hovering between sculpture, painting, collage and photography. Through a method of field research, interviews and collaboration with local communities, his work explores informal economies and the merging of different cultures, focusing on the movement of objects and people in a globalized world. In recent works, Vitturi centers on his family history and multicultural identity. Creating permanent sculptures in glass, textile and found objects, he gives material form to questions of origins and layered identities and points out the meeting of cultures as a multifaceted process in which imbalances, contradictions and conflicts coexist.

His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in institutions around the world, such as FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, The Photographers Gallery in London, the Contact Photography Festival in Toronto and the CNA in Luxembourg. He has participated in several group exhibitions at MAXXI in Rome, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, La Triennale in Milan, BOZAR in Brussels, the K11 Art Space in Shanghai. In 2013, Vitturi published his first book, Dalston Anatomy, - which is held in the artist's book collections of the MoMA, New York, MEP, Paris and Tate Modern, London) - followed by Money Must Be Made in 2017.

Reviews, interviews and portfolio features have appeared in The New York Times, Frieze Magazine, Financial Times,The Guardian, The Observer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit Magazine, Le Monde, Vogue Italy, Dazed & Confused, British Journal Of Photography, Wallpaper*, AnOther Magazine, American Suburb X. Vitturi has previously been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, and Prix Pictet Award.

As a lecturer Vitturi has delivered talks and workshops at the Slade School of Art (London), The Photographers' Gallery, Tate Modern, Arts University Bournemouth, Falmouth University, University of Westminster, Photo London, Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Lima), The Royal Photographic Society (Bristol), Ecal (Lausanne), Universitat de Barcelona, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (MIlan), IUAV ( Venice), NCPA (Mumbai),