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october 17, 2017 - Merano Arte

In your mouth everything dies - Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio at Merano Arte

Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio (1972 Pozzuoli, lives in Berlin) is a quite sensitive and keen observer of our times and of our society, of man’s small and big weaknesses. He uses various techniques and different materials with extreme irony and freedom in his artworks. His approach is never directed to criticize, rather to comment, a poetic, often tragicomic depiction. His is a comment that is never transformed into judgment – that duty might be left to the spectator. 
#lorenzoscottodiluzio will exhibit in #merano a new series of drawings, the bizarre characters of which will unveil the obscure character of the self-representations on social media and on fake news.
Drawing has always followed through Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio’s vast production. His works are spontaneously created, rather than the fruit of an actual design. At the same time he draws from a formal vocabulary that covers from postures currently used on social networks to the observation of politics and our society, up to the Italian popular culture. 
The show at #meranoarte suggests for the first time an in-depth outlook on the artist’s drawing with a series of large-format charcoal artworks of unusual portraits, caricatures, real people, historical characters, or iconographic topoi. These amusing and whimsical portrayals become tragicomic characterizations of our contemporary times and show aspects we usually do not detect in the images spread by the media: sneering grimaces at our daily lives. 
The same ambiguity is to be noticed also in the second group of artworks: it suggests the photographs of faces the artist has made with the sugar mixture used by confectioners to prepare meringues. Although, instead of giving them the delicate form of the meringue, the sweet confections of a cheerful pastel color are distorted into strange faces. 
The daily adopted materials thus acquire completely new meanings, in accordance with a method typical of Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio’s work: “We live in a society bombed by images, if we take away what is from what we do, we realize that reality is made of cold objects, ATM cards, supermarkets, shopping bags. In all frankness we have to let these things enter our poetic world.” 
His work on paper is sided by sculptures and objects in various materials, like the “Spartifila” installation (2017). Starting from found materials, like pieces of wood, plastic buckets, traffic cones, and ropes, the artist creates a real colored “control system,” similar to the safety and security system at airports or at the lines to enter museums or concerts. That is how the artist defines an obligatory passage for the viewer in the exhibiting course. “Spartifila” highlights social constructions and the directions imposed on us. 
#lorenzoscottodiluzio proposes an image of our present that is both precise and comic, poetic, and at the same time absurd, with his drawings, objects, and installations. “In your mouth everything dies” imagines what might be left after the continuous flowing of daily images and information. 
In your mouth everything dies - Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio 
Press meeting: Thrusday October 5 at 11am
Opening: Saturday October 7 at 11.30am
Length of the show: October 8, 2017 – January 14, 2018 Curated by Christiane Rekade 
Tue. – Sat. 10am- 6pm. Sun. and festivities 11am – 6pm #meranoarte - Edificio Cassa di Risparmio
Portici, 163 – 39012 Merano