THEMES AND TECHNIQUES

THE FIRST PERIOD

FRAGILE BALANCES

Lorenzo Zangheri’s education and professional career as a construction engineer led him to get inspiration from the building industry for giving voice to his vision: by depicting structures, mechanisms, and surrealistic-balanced elements, Lorenzo paints questions belonging to the contemporary World, as an unstable and insecure reality. Among all the themes Lorenzo draws about, there is human weakness, worsened by the inconsistency of the virtual world and social media, but with no disapproval judgment around them.

In an arid and desert world, full of sceneries of loneliness and insecurity, Lorenzo counterposes hope and happiness, often drawn through figurative and oniric representations.

During his first period in the art industry, he chooses sanguine drawings as his main technique, reevaluating it as particularly suitable for representing the dialogue between art and philosophy. The paper he draws on is made of pure cellulose with no glues (Rosaspina), ideal for getting shades and accurate nuances, really close to lithograph prints.

THE SECOND PERIOD

CONCEPTUAL IMAGES

After the first period focused on sanguine drawings, Lorenzo created his own mixed techniques by hybridizing soft pastels, watercolors, gouache, and colored Indian inks. The themes he deals with now get less personal and more global and universal. The research behind the combination of different techniques aims to preserve the brilliance of the paper he draws on; in this way, he manages to enhance the purity of the material he uses as well as the concepts depicted.

During his second period in the industry, he improved his artworks by using figurative language which is able to revoke a kind of communication through images, far away from ‘seeing without watching’ and other new illiteracies.