Lorenzo Puglisi
Biella, Italy
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Bologna
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Works by Lorenzo Puglisi
Lorenzo Puglisi (Biella, 1971) is author of a pictorial research characterized by the widespread use of black colour on the canvas which creates an absolute dark background, where the emanating streams of light are able to define volumes, faces, parts of the body, such as presences captured in an expression or a gesture, as the result of a long journey towards the essence of the representation and full of references to the history of oil painting from 1600 until today. Since 2015 his artistic research focuses on painting large canvases related to masterpieces of the past and filtered by his iconography, linking his work with the most classic tradition.
He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad, including MUDEC in Milan, CAC La Traverse in Paris, Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, the Sagrestia del Bramante in Milan and the Crypt of King's Cross St. Pancras Church in London.
Future projects include an exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Latvia in May 2020 in collaboration with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
He lives and works in Bologna.
SELECTED SHOWS
2019
Looking for Monna Lisa, Palazzo del Broletto – Castello Visconteo, Pavia, curated by Valerio Dehò
Lorenzo Puglisi | Popolo e memoria, Copernico Turin, curated by Luca Beatrice
Lorenzo Puglisi | Shades of Shadow, Cypt of King’s Cross St. Pancras church, London, text by Michele Bonuomo
Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 4: True Romance, Kulhaus Berlin, Berlino
Lorenzo Puglisi | Il Grande sacrificio, Bramante’s Sacristy, Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Lorenzo Puglisi | Pitture di luce e di tenebra, Biffi Arte, Piacenza, curated by V. Dehò
Il Grande sacrificio, Studio Guastalla Modern and Contemporary Art, Milan
2018
Lorenzo Puglisi for Mario Sironi: a substitution, Casa Boschi Di Stefano Museum, curated by Maria Fratelli, Milan
Lorenzo Puglisi | Visions of Light and of Darkness (with Omar Galliani), Church of San Sisto Museum, Milan, curated by Maria Fratelli and Raffaella Resch
Una discesa verso l’alto, Ipogeo Bacile, Spongano/Lecce, curated by Toti Carpentieri
In a silent way, Studio Guastalla Modern and Contemporary Art, Milan
La Misericordia, Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Bologna, with a poem by Davide Rondoni
2017
Passion, Galerie Im Park - The Historical Museum, Bremen, curated by Uwe Goldenstein
Nero su Nero. From Fontana to Kounellis, Villa Bardini, Florence, curated by Vera Agosti
La pelle dei pittori e il sangue dei poeti, MUDEC / Museo delle culture, Milan
2016
Lorenzo Puglisi |Caravaggio, la verità nel buio (with Omar Galliani), Coronation Chapel, Riso Museum, Palermo/ Pio Monte della Misericordia church, Naples, curated by Raffaella Resch and Maria Savarese
Lorenzo Puglisi | L’ignoto che appare, Il Milione Gallery, Milan, curated by Roberto Borghi
Lorenzo Puglisi: New Paintings, Galerie Sobering, Paris, curated by Mark Gisbourne
2015
Je me souvien | Mounir Fatmi, Jonathan Monk, Pierre Petit, Lorenzo Puglisi, Lawrence Weiner, Centre d’Art Contemporain La Traverse, Paris
Acqua è, Expo Milan 2015, Venice, curated by Willy Montini
2014
Lorenzo Puglisi, Museo del Territorio, Biella, essay by Bruno Corà
Posterity is a form of the spectator, Galerie Sobering, Paris
Lorenzo Puglisi, Villa Cusani Tittoni, Desio/Milan, essay by Bruno Corà and Valentina Casacchia
2013
Dimenticare il tempo, Il Milione Gallery, Milan, essay by Valerio Dehò
Nero di fondo, Palazzo Monferrato, Alessandria, introduction by Alberto Zanchetta
Selected for the Artist Pension Trust, London
2012
Lorenzo Puglisi – Zilli, l’Art de Vivre (with Carlo Bernardini), Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan
Oltre l’attimo, Grossetti Contemporary Art, Milan
2011
Presenze, Grossetti Contemporary Art, Milan
1000+1000+1000, Palazzo Fava, Bologna
2009
Pitture, Obraz Gallery, curated by Emanuele Beluffi
2008
Lorenzo Puglisi, Piccola Galleria, Asolo, essay by Valerio Dehò
Portraits, Palazzo Berva, Cassano D’Adda/Milan
2007
Scenography for La spia, a drama by Giorgio Celli, Navile Theatre, Bologna
2005
Palazzo della Provincia, Biella
L’arte e il silenzio, Oropa’s Sanctuary, Biella
MONOGRAPHS AND CATALOGUES
2019
Lorenzo Puglisi. Essay by Mark Gisbourne. Hatje Cantz editions.
Lorenzo Puglisi. Text by Luca Beatrice, Prearo editions, Milano.
La Luce oltre il Nero. Essay by Toti Carpentieri. Manfredi editions.
Il Grande Sacrificio. Essay by Giovanni Gazzaneo. Manfredi editions.
2018
Lorenzo Puglisi 15/18, Prearo editions, Milan
2017
Omar Galliani - Lorenzo Puglisi |Caravaggio, la verità nel buio. Essay by Mark Gisbourne
Exh. Cat. Pio Monte della Misericordia Ad est dell’equatore editions,.Naples
2016
Lorenzo Puglisi: New Paintings. Essay by Mark Gisbourne.
Exh. cat Sobering Gallery, Paris.
2014
Lorenzo Puglisi. Essay by Bruno Corà.
Exh. cat. Museo del Territorio, Biella.
2013
Dimenticare il tempo – Bollettino of Il Milione Gallery, Milan