The footprint

Monographic catalog dedicated to the artist L’orMa (Lorenzo Mariani).

What themes does your poetics follow??
In recent years I have faced various issues, often proposed by events or competitions: in 2011 ho, for example, worked on a sculpture on the theme of sustainable food at Expo 2015 (today visible at the Palazzo Lombardia, seat of the Region), and in the same year I developed a work on the economic “default” risk; many works intimately deal with the spiritual and religious aspect; from 2014 (with the solo show Quevesiprestarantenosurse-martoropiravigomidurse) I mainly focused on the issue of the current cohabitation of the natural world with the virtual world.

The latest works focus on the theme of Nature. What does it tell us?
The "collaboration" with nature was the end of a long journey.
We live in a fascinating era in which for the first time in the history of the world technology and the virtual have become integral components of our daily life, putting aside our human nature in a certain sense, carnal and concrete. In my work, therefore, Nature is taken as a starting point, but it is turned upside down, deconstructed and recoded in a new key; with an almost "arrogant" act, for example, the mathematical structure of a leaf is questioned and then perfected, while the shower heads are rendered as virtual 3D projections behind a screen.

[also A virtual true nature, interview with L’orMa by Matteo Galbiati]

The footprint (Lorenzo Mariani) He was born on 1985 and lives and works in Milan.
In 2007 he graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and became the assistant of the artistic couple Vedovamazzei.
Enter the contemporary art scene by exhibiting at various art galleries, public and private entities and wins the selection in various prestigious art competitions (reported at the Cairo Prize 2011, winner of the Cascella Award, winner of the Novara Prize).
In 2011 he was commissioned by the Lombardy Region for a large sculpture representing the theme proposed by EXPO 2015, permanently visible in the new skyscraper complex of the Region.
Artist ranging from traditional painting, to sculpture, to installation, to manual interventions on photography, on leaves and other natural essences, works on paper and finally to the art of ceramics, always creating singular and original works for its visual cut, that manage to surprise the user, as well as for the issues, also for his ability to execute in technical safety in every discipline and with almost maniacal perfection.
In Arte Fiera 2016 the Jury unanimously awarded him the Euromobil Under Award 30 in its 10th edition for the work Adam and Eve: a manual intervention on tragopogon, at 129.5 cm×69,5, made in January 2016.
In November 2016 participates in the second edition of the Arteam Cup Award 2016 and is proclaimed Overall Winner and Over Winner 30 with the assignment of a solo exhibition at the Spazio Arte CUBO Unipol in Bologna in April-May 2017.