Lorenzo Zangheri - Stand 542

Lorenzo Zangheri, born in 1978, is an Italian artist creator of his own collection of gift items: greeting cards, bookmarks, notebooks and mugs, all reproducing one of his works created freehand and accompanied by original poetic notes.

He is a curious and creative “Engineer Artist”; Lorenzo’s personal expression is a product of his unusual educational path: his professional experience of urban planning and building sites has led him to depict structures (both fixed and mobile) via which he highlights parallelisms and allegories with the contemporary world, perceived as frail and on unstable balance.

The world depicted by Lorenzo is, therefore, a barren one, made of wide shots, transience, and balances, but always concerning real life: the “virtual”, the “social”, the overall human condition perceived as increasingly frail, are all themes which are developed and explored in Lorenzo’s works, using structures, kinematics and deserts, only apparently surreal.

In the very first period of his artistic research, he opted for red chalk drawing (sanguine) as his elected technique, deemed particularly suitable for portraying the ongoing dialogue between art and philosophy. His chosen paper is Rosaspina, cellulose-free and glue-free, suitable for achieving precise tonality and shading, almost matching lithographic quality levels.

After the first period dedicated to sheer sanguigna drawings, Lorenzo started to hybridize several techniques, specifically soft crayon, watercolour, gouache and coloured Indian ink.

Since 2018 also works as an illustrator and has created his own collection of artistic greeting cards.