BIOGRAPHY
Alessandro Di Lorenzo (b. 1997) is an artist originally from Matera (Italy), now based in Paris. His work merges sculpture, drawing, installation and video, and unfolds in a hybridized space at the crossroads of the real, the imaginary and the symbolic. His approach is linked to an
art of metamorphosis, constantly evoking an encounter with a sensitive environment that generates new possibilities for co-dependence.
His most recent works are conceived as speculative docu- ctions and are often presented
as an interdependence of humans and non-humans, biological forms, modern and ancestral technologies that change composition and evolve. They provoke an investigation of certain vernacular rites and marginal realities in southern Italy, revealing the role that some alternative cosmogonies play in our society and stimulating a new understanding of the dynamics that regulate our relationship with the multiplicity of possible realities.
“With as much clarity as erudition, drawing on ecological thought, contemporary anthropology and philosophy, Alessandro set out to de ne a relationship with the environment which, from being hostile and domineering, can become a constantly renewed reading of its signs, a co- adaptation, a two-way translation as gentle and fertile as that between humans, animals and plants with their environment. It is within such a relationship that Alessandro Di Lorenzo’s art practice takes on its full meaning: an exploration of signals, of the language born out of forms, of signifying metamorphoses, of the reversibility of signs between ‘nature’ and the ‘subject’ perceiving or acting.
His visual work unfolds precisely along these lines. Often, a shape is the result of a simple action in the material: a blister, a fold or a scratch, a pencil cut too deeply into paper, a hole, is transformed elsewhere into a sphere, an angle or a line, which themselves become a drawing, a whip or a sculpture. In this audacious and singular work, legible signs always emerge from a succession of motor actions and perceptions deployed simultaneously in different directions.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025
Même si les statues meurent // @Espace Parallèle, Paris
L’art et la vie et inversement, exposition des félicité.es // @Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2024
Galerie Mighela Shama x Hit // @Geneva //
Crush // @Beaux-Arts de Paris //
Templum // @Château de La Colle Noire, Montauroux
2023
The Perf. End // @Studio Pordoi, Milan //
Prix Dior de la Colle Noire // @Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris //
2022
Nest melodies // @Amsterdam //
Planta guilde // @atelier RPZ, Pantin //
Crush // @Beaux-Arts de Paris //
2020
Degree Show // @Palazzo Monti, Brescia //
Wire // @Matera // 25apr2020
Ora che il ghiaccio è rotto, parliamo // @Rouge, Milan //
PRIZE
2023
Finalist of Prix du Dessin Contemporain
Winner of Prix Dior de la Colle Noire
The Mountain School of Arts (created by Piero Golia) // @Los Angeles
Artist Developement Program x EIB // @Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and @neimënster, Luxembourg // 2sep2024 - 30nov2024- CASTRO Projects // @Rome
NARS Foundation // @New York // upcoming
Watermill Center (fondée par Bob Wilson) // @New York // upcoming
STAGE
2022
assistant de Tatiana Trouvé //
PUBBLICATIONS
Dessiner aujourd’hui // (Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, 2024)
Studio Visit - 30 artisti per 30 giorni // curated by Adrian Paci, Fondazione Pini, Milano (Boîte Editions, 2020)
EDUCATION
DNSAP avec félicitations // @Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris // sep2021 - jun2024
BFA // @Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan // oct2017 - oct2020- exchange // @Pratt Institute, New York // aug2018 - may201