Biography

Pubblicato il da Carmela Lorusso

Born in the province of Milan, Lorusso studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in the late '90s. After dedicating herself to sculpture for about thirty years, moving from figurative art to Neorealism, she returned to figurative art. Her aesthetic and conceptual bases include ancient art to which she draws inspiration for her works, attracted by archaeology from which she finds inspirational sources. For this reason she participates in an internship at the Archaeological Site of Madinat Al-Zahra in Spain working in the area of support to the restoration during the months of April and May 2001. 

Lorusso at the beginning of 2020 after having been interested and experimented with the technique of encaustic from the little knowledge left to create a sense of movement in her works with the use of transparent superimpositions of wax and natural fibers.

After admiring the works of artists of Russian Constructivism in St. Petersburg during an artistic residency, he began to be interested in the infinite expressive values of materials. He experiments with unusual materials such as plastic, rubber, scotch paper, natural fibers, etc.. to compose works always related to the theme of the old but with a new expressive value related to the possibilities of materials. In his artistic work Lorusso wonders about a possible meeting and conjunction between past and present through the reinterpretation of ancient Greek Roman works and visual culture of ancien Italian art.

Lorusso participates in various exhibitions: In 2022 - Form, Exhibition, 19.10.22 - 06.11.22 - CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea;

2021 - The XXII Triennial of Engraving in Greenchen - 22. Grenchen Triennale - Marktpl.5, 2540 Grenchen, Switzerland; In 2018 - XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira "Artes Plásticas Tradicionais e Artes Digitais. O discurso da (des)ordem"- Bienal de Arte de Cerveira Foundation, Av. Das Comunidades Portuguesas S/N 4920-275 Vila Nova de Cerveira Portugal; the biennial in Valencia 2019 - "IV Biennal de València Ciutat Vella oberta" from 12 to 28 November - CCCC Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània - Calle Museu n° 2, 46003 Valencia in Spain ; the XXII Triennial of Engraving in Greenchen - 22. Grenchen Triennale - Marktpl.5, 2540 Grenchen, Switzerland in 2021.
He exhibits in the gallery Espai B - Torrent de l'Olla, 158, 08012 Barcelona, Spain and participates in a solo exhibition in the same year at Gallery 2,04 - Pushkinskaya ul., 10 - St.. Peterburg - Russia.
He also exhibits one of his works in the section "A4 ART" at Dama Daphne Museum Art in Campania since 2015. Museum 2015 - Work in permanent exhibition - A4 ART - Dama Daphne Museum Art – Campania.

In 2023 Wins of the third prize in the competition at the XI Fundació Barcelona Olímpica - Art on Paper Prize - Museu Olímpic i dell'Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch in Barcelona with the work 'Olympics'

In 2015 Won first prize in the competition "ArTcontest_2015 " in Tuscany in Rocca Tederighi province of Grosseto with The installation work "Rinascita".

He currently teaches in an Art School in Milan.

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