Lorenzo Guerrini Biography
Lorenzo Guerrini (1914 - 2002) was born in Milan in 1914 and studied Umanitaria chisello e embossed at the art school. In 1930 he moved to Rome, where he was a student of Alberto Gerardi. He made numerous trips to Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Luxembourg and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1947 he presented his first solo show of chiseled metal embossments at the Barbaroux Gallery in Milan. He made his first stay in Paris, where he returned repeatedly. In the French capital he had the opportunity to meet the greatest sculptors of our time, from Brancusi to Laurens, from Pevsner to Giacometti. In 1948 he participated with drawings and metallic reliefs in the first abstract art exhibitions of the Art Club together with Burri, Conte, Dorazio, Mannucci, Perilli and others. He began his teaching at the State Institute of Art in Rome and created the first abstract medals.
He was present at the major national exhibitions: Milan Triennale 1951 (IX), 1957 (XI), Venice Biennale 1952 (XXVI), 1954 (XXVII), 1962 (XXXI), Rome Quadrennial 1955 (VII), Carrara Biennale 1965 (IV), 1967 (V), 1969 (VI) and international: Antwerp Biennial 1973 (XII) and exhibitions in Paris, London, United States and Haifa. In 1968 he was invited to exhibit in a personal room at the XXXIV Venice Biennale. He sculpts the works intended for it in Pietrasanta. In 1985 the National Gallery of Modern Art dedicated an anthological exhibition to him and he was named Academician of San Luca. In 1987 he donated to France, in memory of the study trips spent in Paris and grateful for the hospitality in the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome, the sculpture The Breath of the Sea, now at the Pompidou Center. He will be included in countless solo and group exhibitions throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He died in Rome in 2002.
