Loris Cecchini Biography
Loris Cecchini (born 1969) lives and works in Milan.
In his work, photography, drawing, sculpture and installation combine to form a unified poetics. Cecchini's work owes much to his expertise in a wide range of media as well as his tireless curiosity. Subjects appearing in his works include multiple collages and detailed architectural models, rubber objects, reimagined caravans and tree houses, structurally distorted spaces, and prismatic and transparent covers and surfaces.
Today, he is one of the most important Italian artists on the international scene, he has exhibited his works all over the world with personal exhibitions in prestigious museums such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MoMA PS1 in New York, the Kunstverein of Heidelberg, the Centro for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci of Prato and the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan. Loris Cecchini has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Shanghai Biennial, the Rome Quadrennial, the Taiwan Biennial in Taipei, the Valencia Biennial in Spain and the Urbanism/Architecture Biennial (UABB) in Shenzhen, China.
He has created several permanent or specific installations, notably at Villa Celle in Pistoia and in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels and for the Institute of Arts and Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, at Les Terrasses Du Port in Marseille and also at the Cornell Tech building in New York.
