Lorenzo Vitturi

Selected Works

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Lorenzo Vitturi – Jugalbandi

Biography

Lorenzo Vitturi, born in Venice in 1980, 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).

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

21.10.2024
ATP DIARY
Lorenzo Vitturi – Borgo Roma. Paesaggio in transizione | E.ART.H. Foundation di Verona
17.10.2024
Vogue
Alla scoperta di Borgo Roma, Verona, con Lorenzo Vitturi
02.10.2024
Il Sole 24 Ore
Tra fotografia e scultura: Lorenzo Vitturi racconta Borgo Roma
23.09.2024
IL GIORNALE DELL'ARTE
Le mappature poetiche di Vitturi all’Earth Foundation
20.01.2023
ARCHIPRODUCTS
I colori Kerakoll nelle architetture metafisiche di Lorenzo Vitturi
12.2020
LAMPOON MAGAZINE
Streetlife, from the materials to the people – Lorenzo Vitturi and some ephemerality
08.05.2018
ELEPHANT
Lorenzo Vitturi: To Market, to Market
12.12.2017
DAZED
LORENZO VITTURI
10.12.2017
THE GUARDIAN
Lorenzo Vitturi
25.08.2017
FT MAGAZINE
Lorenzo Vitturi
04.2015
FRIEZE MAGAZINE
Construction Sight | How a generation of artists is re-ordering the building blocks of photography by Aaron Schuman
16.12.2013
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY BLOG
In a changing market: an interview with Lorenzo Vitturi on Dalston Anatomy

From the studio: Lorenzo Vitturi

Studio Visit

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"In my studio, I recreate this idea of a natural cycle, birth, death, the relationship between order and chaos. I reproduce these aspects in the ephemeral sculptures, which are not made to last."
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Solo exhibitions

2024

‘Borgo Roma. Paesaggio in Transizione’, EARTH Foundation, Verona
‘Metamorphosis’, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2023

Also on View: Lorenzo Vitturi, Innesti, T293 Roma

2022

‘Aventurine, Transformations & Other Stories’, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2021

‘Money Must Be Made’, V Biennale di Fotografia dell’Industria e del Lavoro, Fondazione MAST, Bologna

2020

‘Jugalbandi’, T293, Roma
NULLA È PURO’, Centre Photographique, Rouen, France

2019

‘Lorenzo Vitturi – Materia Impura’, foam, Amsterdam

2018

‘Money Must Be Made’, Tosetti Value per l’Arte, Turin
‘Money Must Be Made’, Flowers Gallery, London
‘Natural man-made, Oyinbo, and moving beats, T293, Rome

2017

MiArt, Emergent Section, Booth Viasaterna, Milan

2016

‘Droste Effect, Debris and Other Problems’, Viasaterna, Milan

2015

‘Dalston Anatomy’, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto
‘Sandringham Road Process’, Hyères Festival, Villa Noailles, Hyères
‘Dalston Anatomy’, Pomhouse, Centre National De l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg

2014

‘Dalston Anatomy’, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
‘Dalston Anatomy’, Flowers Gallery, London
‘Dalston Anatomy’, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

2013

‘Dalston Anatomy’, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions

2023

Flowers Gallery, London
Imagina ‘Biennale di Gubbio 2023’
‘Olympism Made Visible’, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, India (upcoming)
‘The Farm Shop’, Fels, London

2022

‘Planeta Sessions: Alma Venus’, Noto
‘Asama International Photo Festival 2022’, Miyota, JP

‘De Rerum Natura’, Venice Meeting Point, Venice
‘The Time is Right’, The Saudi Art Council, SA

2021

‘New horizons, Ephemeral Style’, Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm, Norway
‘Il trauma del visibile’, Musei Civici Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
‘The Families of Man’, Archeological Museum, Aosta
‘Viavài’, Via della Spiga, Milan

2020

‘Unearthed: Photography’s Roots’, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

2019

‘Kaleidoscope: Immigration and Modern Britain’, The Somerset House, London

2018

‘A New Perspective’, La Triennale di Milano, Milan

2017

‘Indecisive Moment’, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette
‘Fantasy Access Code’, K11 Art Space, Shanghai
‘Fantasy Access Code’, Palazzo Reale Milano, Milan

2016

‘Versus’, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
‘The Balogun Particle’, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos
‘Dey Your Lane! Lagos Variations’, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
‘L’Autre Visage, Portrait & Expérimentations Photographiques’, Centre Photographique Pôle Image, Haute Normandie
‘Sintesi SS9’, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
‘Strange and Familiar, Britain as Revealed by International Photographers’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2015

‘Picture Perfect, Sulla Viralità della Fotografia’, Viasaterna, Milan
‘Foreign Body’, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow
‘Work Rest and Play’, British Photography from 1960 to today, OCT Chengdu, OCT LOFT, Shenzen and Minsheng Museum, Shanghai
‘The Return to Reason’, Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco

2014

‘Publish/Curate’, Trolley Gallery, London
‘Dalston Anatomy’, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos
‘Reflected’, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
‘The Street Goes On’, IMA Gallery, Tokyo
‘Dalston Anatomy’, Hyères 29th International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Villa Noailles, Montée Noailles, Hyères,

2013

‘Dalston Anatomy’, Paris Photo, Paris
‘Dalston Anatomy’, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam

2012

‘Methods’, London Design Festival, London

2011

‘The Curator’, Milk Gallery, New York

2008

‘Linea Veloce Bologna – Milano’, L’Ospitale, Reggio Emilia
‘Confini, Frontiere’, Palazzo della Provincia, Pordenone
‘Eros, Time and Images’, Central Hall Exhibition, St Petersburg

2007

‘Atlante Italiano 007, Rischio Paesaggio’, MAXXI, Rome

2006

‘Les Yeux Ouverts’, Centro Pompidou, Paris
‘Les Yeux Ouverts’, Galleria Triennale, Milan
‘Fotoesordio’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

2005

‘Pasolini e Roma’, Museo di Roma In Trastevere, Rome

2004

‘Il Feticismo della Visione’, Sala S. Rita, Rome