lorenzoArs photographer

LUX INFORMAE

by Franco Torriani

In this exhibition, that involves different techniques and media, but where Photography is the chosen tool, lorenzoArs presents a reflection and a production based, among others, on three elements: light, shape, material.

Complex balance between the desire to give shape to light and, as a declaration of intent, to bring out the shape through the use of light. Shape that emerges, according to the artist, from a mixture between the human species and nature, between the inside and the outside, between physicality and spirituality.

His analogical photographs and Polaroid prints, are both a presentation of the body and a reflection on the body and on the identity of the subject. A hybrid body that, as it appears in these artworks, or rather in their programmed sequence, is a hybrid of commissions ranging from culture, identity, techniques. A body that is neither completely natural nor wholly artificial (Bernard Andrieu, in Les avatars du corps).

Through the shape the body emerges from the dark (from the emptiness? Complex concept …) and the body itself embodies the shape ….

A research and application of photographic technique, that of Lorenzo, characterized by an experimental and productive relationship with the new media, as we call it, where the subject is placed gradually in a still image,

suspended into a process of experience and knowledge, of sense construction and perception of reality.

LUX INFORMAE

by Laura Capuozzo

The exhibition concerns the Light that moulds the matter and is an Official event of the UNESCO International Year of Light and Light based Technologies (IYL2015).

Starting from the desire to shape the Light, lorenzoArs wraps the viewer in an imaginative and multi-sensorial experience that comes to life from the darkness. The artist started this long and ambitious project in the ’90s, using analogical photographic equipment and today, during the International Year of Light 2015, he exhibits the Aesthetic of the Light. The sculptural approach of his research shows how light “form” and “trans- form” the empty space, when it intercepts a sensitive medium. His “sculptures of light” enclose and then evoke the pictorial matter and the plastic materials. The molded Light is, in turn, the element of a communication process, which aims to catch the truth of vision and perception. A dynamic depth where colors create an indefinite dimension. Sign disappears, Light changes and shapes appearances. Subject to the “law of change”, light creates harmonies between sensory and transcendence. LUX INFORMAE turns, in fact, the two-dimensional being of the Photography into a “multiple points of view” setting to attract the viewer in a designed three-dimensional space. You have the sensation of floating in unstable figures, where the suggestion of the shapes is merges with that of the observer. Between density and transparency, light-sculptures emphasize the light-dark dichotomy that does not exclude symbolic values related to Life and Body. The “body of the light” borns, it is formed and evolves, creating a tangible immateriality. So, this series recombines the physical reality and the apparent one, fusing and con-fusing them to create harmony. Imaginative passion emerges thank to the genesis of colors that invade the space, modeling it. The experience – to which we are subjected – is so intimately connected with the

light-space. So, this exhibition will grow, mutate and evolve in an infinite series, which recalls the sense of our life and its flow. LorenzoArs firm the matter-form-light connection showing, at the same time, the unstable boundaries of all the artistic techniques.

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BIO english

lorenzoArs graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna by discussing a dissertation on his artistic praxis under the intellectual guide of Walter Guadagnini, professor of Art History.

After various work experiences in the artistic pamoramas of several Italian and foreign cities, nowdays his artistic production is based in Firenze and covers a variety of languages, ranges from sculpture to video art. Different tools prompt his Art towards a mixture of materials and matters, combining skills and interests in several practices. Among them, we can find Painting, Sculpture, Photography but also Video Art and innovative interactive and immersive installation.

Since 1987 his art exhibitions are gathering acclaims all over the world. In 1996 he started working in the field of Visual Design and in 1999 he was certified as Adobe ACE and then as Adobe ACI and he was an Adobe Guru for advertising companies. Simultaneously, his Visual Communication agency was one of the most influent in the European visual communication panorama, promoting the made in Italy excellence.

In 2015, “LUX INFORME” project was selected by UNESCO among the official events of the International Year of Light because of the experimental research that the artist put in Photography. That project was also a wide solo exhibition in Florence, at the Casa di Dante Museum (catalogue edited by Franco Torriani and Laura Capuozzo). In 2016 it was published in “LightArt in Italy 2015/16” volume by Gisella Gellini (Politecnico di Milano) and showed during a conference-event which took place in the Museo del Novecento (Milano), which highlights the most significant experiences on that issue.

In 2024 the LUXINFORMAE project was selected by EXHIBART for the 60th Venice Biennale of Art and exhibited in the Corderie of the Arsenale and published in a special edition specific for the Biennale of the prestigious art magazine.

As about his pictorial practice, the ANGELS 3.0 project underlines our social contests an has the merit of stimulate a debate on men’s systems of ontological and ethical values. He was the Creative Director and Editor of several publications, such as “22secondi “by Ed’A and he has drawn the cover and the anatomical boards in “Preparazione Atletica e Riabilitazione” Edizioni C.G. Edizioni Medico Scientifiche -Torino. Currently he teaches photography and visual design for MIUR educational institutions

BIO italian

lorenzoArs, creativo poliedrico di origini abruzzesi, si laurea all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna discutendo una tesi sulla propria poetica artistica con il Prof. Walter Guadagnini e, dopo varie esperienze lavorative nel mondo dell'arte e della creatività nei suoi luoghi e in diverse città italiane, si trasferisce definitivamente a Firenze. La sua produzione artistica spazia dalla scultura alla video art. La continua ricerca poetica si avvale di esperienze di ogni tipo, nelle tecniche e nei materiali, dalla calcografia alla scultura, dal trompe l’oeil al restauro pittorico. Dal 1987 espone in numerose mostre in tutto il mondo, raccogliendo consensi per la sua poetica innovativa. Nel 1996 inizia il percorso lavorativo nel visual design e nel 1999 acquisisce la certificazione Adobe ACE e poi ACI e per un breve periodo entra a far parte degli Adobe Guru lavorando a stretto contatto con aziende di advertising come Adobe Evangelist.

Nel frattempo si impone con la sua agenzia di comunicazione come Art Director nel panorama della visual communication europea, lavorando con le eccellenze del made in italy e non solo, fino al 2010. Parallelamente, prosegue e arricchisce la propria ricerca artistica con l'uso delle nuove tecnologie, facendo dialogare le arti visive tradizionali con il digitale e la computer grafica e approfondendo la sperimentazione intrapresa nei linguaggi audiovisivi e nella fotografia.

Nel 2015 il suo progetto di fotografia sperimentale "LUX INFORMAE" è selezionato dall'UNESCO come evento ufficiale dell'Anno Internazionale dell'Energia Luminosa e si traduce in una grande mostra personale a Firenze, ospitata al Museo Casa di Dante (catalogo curato da Franco Torriani e Laura Capuozzo). La stessa mostra, nel 2016, viene pubblicata in "LightArt in Italy" di Gisella Gellini per il Politecnico di Milano. Il volume, presentato in una Conferenza-evento al Museo del Novecento di Milano, mette in luce le esperienze più significative nell'ambito della ricerca artistica su tale tematica.

Nel 2024 il progetto LUXINFORMAE viene selezionato da EXHIBART per la 60° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia ed esposto nelle corderie dell’Arsenale e pubblicato in una edizione speciale specifica per la Biennale della prestigiosa rivista d'arte.

La sperimentazione fotografica si accompagna e si contamina con il linguaggio pittorico e plastico. Di rilievo la serie ANGELS 3.0 che mette in luce contesti attuali in grado però di rimandare e far riflettere su sistemi di valori ontologici ed etici.

Vanta la direzione creativa di molteplici pubblicazioni editoriali, tra cui spicca 22secondi edito da Ed'A e la realizzazione della copertina e delle tavole anatomiche in Preparazione Atletica e Riabilitazione Edizioni C.G. Edizioni Medico Scientifiche - Torino.

Oggi è docente MIUR di Discipline Audiovisive e Multimediali e visual design