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Lorenzo Vitturi

Lorenzo Vitturi's work spans the mediums of photography, sculpture, and installation, drawing inspiration from places where dynamics of urban transformation and cultural hybridization intertwine. Guided by field research, community collaboration, and storytelling, his work highlights spaces of informal economies and cultural intersections. Collecting objects and materials, both organic and fabricated, he captures the collision of different worlds and translates it into permanent sculptures in glass, textile and found objects, thus giving material form to questions of origins and layered identities.
Recently, Vitturi’s focus has shifted to his family history, crafting evocative sculptures that explore his origins and his multicultural identity.

Lorenzo Vitturi's work blends photography, sculpture, and installation, inspired by urban transformation and cultural hybridization. Through collected materials, he crafts evocative sculptures that explore informal economies, cultural intersections, and, recently, his own family history and multicultural identity.

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Metamorphosis Collection

Aventurine Collection

Caminantes Collection

Metamorphosis Collection

A journey of tracing heritage roots in Peru and Italy, this collection by artist Lorenzo Vitturi not only questions boundaries but is designed with a vision to also transcend them. The collection ranges from large, soft sculptures suspended overhead to intricate still-life pieces with fractal patterns and geometry, the works explore contrasts in scale. The oversized, tactile forms encourage us to measure our bodies against their volume, to reflect on the relationship between our material and theirs, while subtly gesturing toward forms that transcend the human experience. Each material used to create this collection plays a silent role and is a protagonist in its own form, to bring harmony to the life-like sculptures, urging the viewer to see parts of themselves in the forms. Lorenzo also powerfully re-employs the tradition and knowledge of glass and textile – adaptable mediums often labelled in ‘Western art’ as craft – to imagine new visual languages and encounters between cultures. In a way, these ‘handmade visions’ create emotionally-charged spaces where two or more cultures meet, where different social classes encounter one other and to ultimately move beyond what separates ‘us’ from ‘them’.

Lorenzo Vitturi’s Metamorphosis collection traces his Peruvian-Italian heritage, merging glass, textiles, and sculpture to transcend boundaries. It redefines craft through tactile, vibrant forms, creating poignant spaces where cultures meet, identities blend, and divisions between “us” and “them” dissolve.

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Aventurine Collection

Aventurine, an ancient mineral, lends its name to avventurina, a 17th-century Murano glass technique born of serendipity. Both captivate with their celestial shimmer, finding expression in art, design, jewelry, and the mystical realms of healing. Through this collection, Lorenzo Vitturi delves into the histories and making-processes of Aventurine. Vitturi employs the mineral physically as an object, and metaphorically as a token that connects seemingly diverging cultures and geographies. The stone appears as microscopic fragments in the artist’s brightly-coloured, monumental tapestries. The latter stem both from a long-term research process into rug-making artisanal traditions in Peru and a three-year-long collaboration with artisans at Jaipur Rugs. In Vitturi’s nimbly-balanced, recurring still lives, as in his tapestries, figures and shapes move towards abstraction as if attempting to evade meaning. Yet, each texture, motive, object is carefully sourced and displayed by Vitturi for its evocative qualities and references to particular cultural traditions and landscapes. The convergence of clues from various traditions weaves a tapestry of new imagery, forming a unique visual language. Aesthetic elements from diverse regions intertwine, enriching and transforming one another in an inevitable dance of cultural exchange.

Lorenzo Vitturi’s collection explores Aventurine’s histories, merging Peruvian rug-making and Jaipur Rugs’ craftsmanship. Aventurine appears in monumental tapestries, blending textures, traditions, and geographies into abstract forms, creating a visual language where cultures converge, transform, and celebrate the art of exchange.

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Caminantes Collection

The term Caminantes loosely translates to a walkers and this collection takes us on a journey through the history of Vitturi’s family which served as an inspiration for this collection. In this collection, the artist recalls the travels of his father from the Venetian lagoon to Peru to open a Murano glass factory. This is where the designer’s parents met, thus bringing together two distinct worlds and cultures. The project combines photography, sculpture, performance and community engagement and results in richly-colored textile sculptures, whose composition is an assemblage of fragments borrowed from different cultures. The artist thus gives material form to his questioning of concepts of origins, cultural hybridization and identity formation.

Caminantes, meaning "walkers," traces Lorenzo Vitturi’s family history, inspired by his father’s journey from Venice to Peru. Through photography, sculpture, and performance, he crafts vibrant textile sculptures, exploring origins, cultural hybridization, and identity through a fusion of fragments.

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Jaipur rugs

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