With as much clarity as erudition, drawing on ecological thought, contemporary anthropology and philosophy, Alessandro set out to define a relationship with the environment which, from being hostile and domineering, can become a constantly renewed reading of its signs, a co-adaptation, a two-way translation as gentle and fertile as that between humans, animals and plants with their environment. It is within such a relationship that Alessandro DiLorenzo’s art practice takes on its full meaning: an exploration of signals, of the language born out of forms, of signifying metamorphoses, of the reversibility of signs between ‘nature’ and the ‘subject’ perceiving or acting. His visual work unfolds precisely along these lines. Often, a shape is the result of a simple action in the material: a blister, a fold or a scratch, a pencil cut too deeply into paper, a hole, is transformed elsewhere into a sphere, an angle or a line, which themselves become a drawing, a whip or a sculpture. In this audacious and singular work, legible signs always emerge from a succession of motor actions and perceptions deployed simultaneously in different directions.
Alessandro Di Lorenzo (b. 1997) is an artist originally from Matera (Italy), now based in Paris. His work merges sculpture, drawing, installation and video, and unfolds in a hybridized space at the crossroads of the real, the imaginary and the symbolic. His approach is linked to an art of metamorphosis, constantly evoking an encounter with a sensitive environment that generates new possibilities for co-dependence. His most recent works are conceived as speculative docu-fictions and are often presented as an interdependence of humans and non-humans, biological forms, modern and ancestral technologies that change composition and evolve. They provoke an investigation of certain vernacular rites and marginal realities in southern Italy, revealing the role that some alternative cosmogonies play in our society and stimulating a new understanding of the dynamics that regulate our relationship with the multiplicity of possible realities.
Alessandro's residency with NARS is made possible by the Italian Council 14th edition.
