SpazioA is proud to present on Saturday, 3 May 2025, Near - Far - Far - Near, a solo show by the artist Andrea Di Lorenzo in the gallery project space.

Near - Far - Far - Near considers the aggregate of relationships that arise between subjects and materials originating in an archival practice and a collection of organic materials and manmade products.

The exhibition’s elements were obtained through a process of joining and hybridization subsequently formalized in sculpture and photographic image.

Even when present in two-dimensional form, the works maintain relationships with sculpture, the makings and combinations of three-dimensional form, and the multiplication of a matrix that reflects their dual nature: the result of processes linked to material transformation and serialization on one hand, and the expression of the modularity present in both nature and the manmade world on the other.

The strategies developed in the plant kingdom underlying these relationships were studied with an eye to creating metamorphic works based on naturalness and corporeality that going toward product from technique, and vice versa.

Commonly-used thermal insulation materials fold into shapes similar to those of containers and are linked to subjects in a family of plants capable of naturally emitting heat. The copy of these blooms is preserved and enclosed, in order to preclude dissipation and to ideally conserve the temperature variations developed to attract pollinating insects.

Artistic investigation extends also to the reproductive mechanisms of different species of plant, consisting of those particular physical characteristics that let parts of plants attach to and be transported by different animals, for example.

Fur is replaced here by mass-produced commercial garments photographed close up in order to highlight their surface, plasticity and, in a certain sense, tactile qualities.

Show dynamics are driven also by industrial and agricultural techniques, processes of fusion and mass production. Metal parts that appear standard-made are used to make the sculptures that enliven the exhibition space. Their subjects are the plant subjects the exhibition begins with, cultivated almost exclusively through a cloning process.

Distancing from the idea of uniqueness is irradiated throughout the exhibition: the elements that make up the sculptures are found in pairs or groups.

Transition of matter from organic to inorganic incorporates a further shift, adding further confusion to the origin of the subjects, while also strengthening a link with architecture and encouraging associations and reinterpretations that are capable of creating new ecosystems in the space.