Provenance:
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, as per certificate;
here acquired by the present owner
Exhibitions:
Lorenzo Scotto Di Luzio. Love me Tender, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, from March 21st to May 7th 2002, Illustrated in the exhibition catalog
The lot is visible at Blindarte Milan
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The artistic research of Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio (Pozzuoli, 1972) is immediately outlined as a transversal practice that uses different tools. In 1992 he founded Studio Aperto Multimediale, an independent space-laboratory in the historic center of Naples with colleagues Giulia Piscitelli and Pasquale Cassandro.
His artistic production is united by the pungent irony with which the artist creates a reflection on contemporary society, often using his own body and image. In his works he adopted with great freedom different materials and different techniques. His approach is never a direct criticism, but rather a commentary, a poetic representation, often tragicomic of the contemporary, embracing the
In fact, as he himself will say on the occasion of his exhibition "Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio. In your mouth everything dies" curated by Christiane Rekade in 2018:
"We live in a society bombarded by images, and if one takes away what is from what he does, he realizes that reality is made of cold objects, ATM cards, supermarkets, shopping bags. We must therefore make an act of sincerity and let these things enter into our own poetic world".