Daniela De Lorenzo

Al posto suo, 2020
Photographic animation, sound, 1’13’’
Editing Antonella Nicola
© Daniela De Lorenzo

Since her debut, Daniela De Lorenzo has always remained on the fringe of sculpture. Later she established an ongoing relationship with photography, and now these two centres of interest co-exist in a continual game of cross-references. Since then, she has also gone on to embrace video and performances. She is interested in the body, as a subject and object. She investigates its ‘invisible’ aspects, while striving to underline the mystery of its identity.
The video Al posto suo shows the bodies of the three female figures from the Tre Grazie (1531) painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, housed at the Louvre in Paris. Coloured in black and white, De Lorenzo places them against a neutral background where the three bodies take on an atemporal aspect, fluctuating and continually changing places. The artist is interested in their gaze; that is, their perception of each other. This swapping of places takes on a further meaning, prompting an exchange of looks that ends up involving the spectator, who observes the three graces and is observed by them in turn.
In reality, the changing positions and points of view also produce a change inside the subjects involved: as Staccioli himself teaches, the perception of an image within a space generates a transformation both in the person doing the perceiving and in the person/thing perceived.

“Weaved together, the imperturbable Graces generate friendship, beauty, love…sisters and Venus’ companions…
The vision is analysed through the mutual point of observation, me and them, casting light on a different aspect of familiarity itself. This is just the start of a series of possible new points of view where the vision opens up and makes room to go forth and multiply.
It aims to create a subtle ambiguity in which the moving forms spark a constant tension, absorbing the hypothesis of metamorphosis.
Spaces are used to attempt to give the snapshot a duration, and so the photo is transformed into an imprint of the possible.” (Daniela De Lorenzo)

Daniela De Lorenzo was born in 1959 in Florence where she lives and works.
She has displayed her works in various group and solo exhibitions in prestigious exhibition venues in Italy and abroad, including the Kunstverein in Kassel; Neue Galerie in Graz; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato; Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center in Shanghai; Mart in Rovereto; MACRO in Rome; MAMbo in Bologna; the Milan Triennale; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome; MASI in Lugano; Verein allerArt in Bludenz; Fondazione Adriano Olivetti in Rome; La Gallera in Valencia and Museo Novecento in Florence.
In 1988 she took part in the 43rd Venice Biennale.
Her works are present in private and public collections, including: Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato; PAC in Milan; Neue Galerie in Graz; MASI in Lugano; Centre del Carme in Valencia; Museo degli Uffizi in Florence; Galleria Nazionale in Rome and MAXXI in Rome.
Website: www.danieladelorenzo.net

in dialogue with Mauro Staccioli, Scultura Intervento, 1975, Galleria Bocchi, Milano.

Photo by E. Cattaneo