Lorenzo Gramaccia is a visual artist skilled in drawing.
He was born in Ancona (Italy) in 1992, where he attended art school. He obtained a first and second level diploma in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he currently works alongside professor and art historian Pietro Roccasecca in History of Drawing and Art Graphics courses.
His artistic research is rooted in our existential dimension. Fragility and temporality flow into evanescence, a quality of the human being and a peculiarity of his art. The elusive, enigmatic, inexplicable aspects of existence are given a tangible body through graphic and pictorial signs, concrete images with a strong nostalgic feel and plots charged with pàthos.
He has a strong predilection for drawing, convinced that the emotional precision of the sign, in addition to its intimate and primordial value, can make it a symbol of contemporary aesthetic sensitivity. In recent years, he has also decided to experiment with the most innovative digital technologies related to visual art.
He exhibits in various galleries and museums, including the Pinacoteca Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea in Gaeta, the Patrimonium Museum in Sutri, the Dingyuan International Art Center in Beijing, the Capitoline Museums and the Vatican Museums in Rome.
In 2017, he won an international call for tenders that led him to work for the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome according to the dictates of Italian-style scenography.
In 2018, he won the Mario Moderni Special Prize for the painting section and took part in the Manifesta 12 Biennial with the La Nica Gallery in Rome, with which he maintain ongoing relationships.
As representative for Italy and winner of the international drawing competition Dessine moi un Monde, in 2019 he was invited to the award ceremony with Princess Stéphanie of Monaco at the Yacht Club de Monaco.
In 2021, his work 'Odor terrae' won the first edition of EcoLogicArt for the digital art section.
In 2022, he are included in the Catalog of Modern Art: Italian Artists from the Early 20th Century to Today (Vol. 58) published by Giorgio Mondadori.
In 2023, he are selected by the jury of the international competition Figurativas, promoted by the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona.
In the summer of the same year, at the Palazzo Chigi Albani in Soriano nel Cimino, he held a solo exhibition presented to the public by the art historian and emeritus professor Robertomaria Siena.
In 2024, he is selected for the project called "Art is Beauty," sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Culture and funded by the European Union, which aims to explore and deepen the potential offered by the most innovative digital technologies in relation to traditional and historical techniques.
He worked as a cultural mediator at MAXXI in Rome for Yoko Ono's work 'Add Color' (Refugee Boat) and exhibited with, among others, masters of art history such as Francisco Goya and Katsushika Hokusai.
The Vatican museum complex has acquired three of his drawings, which have become part of the Vatican Museums' large collection.
STATEMENTI investigate the human being. Weakness and temporality flow into the evanescence, property of our existential dimension and my art peculiarity.
My artworks are composed by the stratification of meticolous graphic signs. On the surface emerge particulars which convey towards lower layers, where the surface blends to the profundity.The modernity of these elements gives back man's natural ambivalence: essence and appearance, like body and soul, are connected in a indissoluble union.
Every layer keeps traces of the past like memory marks that slowly fades but don't vanish.
