The youngest of four children, Lorenzo is the son of Emilio Mariani e Adriana Lampronti.
Ever since his childwood he has shown great interest in creativity which has led him to follow artistic studies.
In 2003 he started his studies at the Brera Academy in Milan specializing in Painting, but his desire to experiment with different materials led him to change several teachers until 2006, when he met the couple of artists Vedovamazzei whose assistant he became until 2009, coming into contact with post-conceptual art.
L’orMa finished his studies in 2007.
He made his debut officially in 2011, when Lombardy Region selected his work “Nourrire le Planete” as a representative sculpture of the theme proposed by EXPO 2015 “feeding the Planet, energy for life”, wich can now be seen at the complex of skyscrapers which form the administrative seat of the Region.
In the same year he was selected for the Novara art Award, becaming the winner.
2011 is also the year in which he met Paola Veronesi Testoni, the owner of the Spazio Testoni Art Gallery in Bologna, Italy, who was to became his promoter and representative until 2019.
In 2016, during Artefiera Bologna, it was Paola who presented the sculpture “Adam and Eve”, created by the artist entirely with stabilized plant materials, for the Euromobil Under 30 Award, winning unanimously ten days before the artist’s thirty-first birthday.
In the same year he applied for the Arteamcup Prize promoted by ESPOARTE Magazine; selected among the 60 finalists he was named “winner over 30” and subsequently “Overall winner” of the 2016 edition.
After this success a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at CUBO, the Unipol Group Museum, in addition to the cover of the paper edition of the bimonthly magazine ESPOARTE.
By 2017 his works were exhibited at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa together with those of other artists such as Emilio Isgrò, Nanni Balestrini, Yoko Ono, Alberto Garutti, Piero Gilardi, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bertozzi and Casoni at the exhibition entitled Urpflanze. In the same year he participated in ArteFiera Bologna sharing the stand with Marcello Morandini, one of the major representatives of the concrete art movement. In September 2017, on the occasion of his participation in the Wopart art fair (Work on Paper Art Fair), L'orMa presented his first two sculptures made entirely of paper, a technique that, together with his experimentation with elements of the vegetable world, would soon become one of his main distinguishing marks.
In the following year (2018), the Italian Red Cross invited L'orMa to present his work entitled "100th Anniversary of the First World War" at the ceremony for the Centenary of the First World War; the artist created this work in commemoration of the event, it is a wearable necklace, made up of a series of glass spheres connected by silver coated in white gold, inside which the main events of the conflict are represented in handmade miniatures. The work is now part of an important private collection and it is visible in Lugano (Switzerland) at the museum where it is kept.
In 2019 he began his collaboration with the Forni Art Gallery, which today represents him.
In 2021 L'orMa is among the 10 finalists of the VAF Foundation Award, one of the main platforms for cultural exchange and artistic dialogue between Italy and Germany.
Techniques
L'orMa has distinguished himself in the artistic panorama for a declared revival of "know-how", declaring several times that he considers himself first of all a craftsman even before being an artist; His research, often permeated with cultural citations from the past, ranges from traditional painting, sculpture, installation, manual interventions on plants and natural elements, to the art of ceramics and also forms of virtual art;
He creates works which are both original and unusual in their visual image, and which always manage to surprise the viewer, as do his themes and executive skill in his mastery of technique through which he achives an almost maniacal perfection which seems to challenge the limits of his subject matter. This is how in his works, plant elements such as dandelions or poppies, seem to live suspended between the virtual world and the real one, overcoming their own ephemeral image; This kind of work reflects on the current cohabitation of these two worlds where, to quote the artist's words, the virtual one often seems to become "more concrete than the concrete. It exists but at the same time it doesn't exist". The artist has stated several times in interviews that all this is not proposed in a polemical key; on the contrary, happy to be born in this "curious century", he carries out "a fascinated investigation of something that, for the first time in World history, appeared delicately, but radically". Another predominant subject in the artist's research is paper; despite his apparent delicacy, it becomes the main material of his sculptures transforming itself into something "eternal", confirming his preference for unconventional and apparently ephemeral materials. Another feature often present in his works is "doubling": the artist in more than one interview has declared that he considers himself a "living contradiction". A contradiction that also seems to envelop the aesthetics of his works: if on the one hand the inheritance of poor art is immediately observable, in the minimal aspect that characterizes the visual impact with his works, on a closer look one realizes that they are often extremely rich in details and miniatures, almost of a "baroque" style. The issues addressed are often "strong", close to everyday life or drawn from the main philosophical aspects that surround the human being, and are almost always accentuated by the contrast with the harmonic and sometimes ironic aspect of the composition.
Ever since his childwood he has shown great interest in creativity which has led him to follow artistic studies.
In 2003 he started his studies at the Brera Academy in Milan specializing in Painting, but his desire to experiment with different materials led him to change several teachers until 2006, when he met the couple of artists Vedovamazzei whose assistant he became until 2009, coming into contact with post-conceptual art.
L’orMa finished his studies in 2007.
He made his debut officially in 2011, when Lombardy Region selected his work “Nourrire le Planete” as a representative sculpture of the theme proposed by EXPO 2015 “feeding the Planet, energy for life”, wich can now be seen at the complex of skyscrapers which form the administrative seat of the Region.
In the same year he was selected for the Novara art Award, becaming the winner.
2011 is also the year in which he met Paola Veronesi Testoni, the owner of the Spazio Testoni Art Gallery in Bologna, Italy, who was to became his promoter and representative until 2019.
In 2016, during Artefiera Bologna, it was Paola who presented the sculpture “Adam and Eve”, created by the artist entirely with stabilized plant materials, for the Euromobil Under 30 Award, winning unanimously ten days before the artist’s thirty-first birthday.
In the same year he applied for the Arteamcup Prize promoted by ESPOARTE Magazine; selected among the 60 finalists he was named “winner over 30” and subsequently “Overall winner” of the 2016 edition.
After this success a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at CUBO, the Unipol Group Museum, in addition to the cover of the paper edition of the bimonthly magazine ESPOARTE.
By 2017 his works were exhibited at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa together with those of other artists such as Emilio Isgrò, Nanni Balestrini, Yoko Ono, Alberto Garutti, Piero Gilardi, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bertozzi and Casoni at the exhibition entitled Urpflanze. In the same year he participated in ArteFiera Bologna sharing the stand with Marcello Morandini, one of the major representatives of the concrete art movement. In September 2017, on the occasion of his participation in the Wopart art fair (Work on Paper Art Fair), L'orMa presented his first two sculptures made entirely of paper, a technique that, together with his experimentation with elements of the vegetable world, would soon become one of his main distinguishing marks.
In the following year (2018), the Italian Red Cross invited L'orMa to present his work entitled "100th Anniversary of the First World War" at the ceremony for the Centenary of the First World War; the artist created this work in commemoration of the event, it is a wearable necklace, made up of a series of glass spheres connected by silver coated in white gold, inside which the main events of the conflict are represented in handmade miniatures. The work is now part of an important private collection and it is visible in Lugano (Switzerland) at the museum where it is kept.
In 2019 he began his collaboration with the Forni Art Gallery, which today represents him.
In 2021 L'orMa is among the 10 finalists of the VAF Foundation Award, one of the main platforms for cultural exchange and artistic dialogue between Italy and Germany.
Techniques
L'orMa has distinguished himself in the artistic panorama for a declared revival of "know-how", declaring several times that he considers himself first of all a craftsman even before being an artist; His research, often permeated with cultural citations from the past, ranges from traditional painting, sculpture, installation, manual interventions on plants and natural elements, to the art of ceramics and also forms of virtual art;
He creates works which are both original and unusual in their visual image, and which always manage to surprise the viewer, as do his themes and executive skill in his mastery of technique through which he achives an almost maniacal perfection which seems to challenge the limits of his subject matter. This is how in his works, plant elements such as dandelions or poppies, seem to live suspended between the virtual world and the real one, overcoming their own ephemeral image; This kind of work reflects on the current cohabitation of these two worlds where, to quote the artist's words, the virtual one often seems to become "more concrete than the concrete. It exists but at the same time it doesn't exist". The artist has stated several times in interviews that all this is not proposed in a polemical key; on the contrary, happy to be born in this "curious century", he carries out "a fascinated investigation of something that, for the first time in World history, appeared delicately, but radically". Another predominant subject in the artist's research is paper; despite his apparent delicacy, it becomes the main material of his sculptures transforming itself into something "eternal", confirming his preference for unconventional and apparently ephemeral materials. Another feature often present in his works is "doubling": the artist in more than one interview has declared that he considers himself a "living contradiction". A contradiction that also seems to envelop the aesthetics of his works: if on the one hand the inheritance of poor art is immediately observable, in the minimal aspect that characterizes the visual impact with his works, on a closer look one realizes that they are often extremely rich in details and miniatures, almost of a "baroque" style. The issues addressed are often "strong", close to everyday life or drawn from the main philosophical aspects that surround the human being, and are almost always accentuated by the contrast with the harmonic and sometimes ironic aspect of the composition.
