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Maurizio Anzeri

Maurizio Anzeri

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  • Italian, b. 1969 Lives and works in London, UK Maurizio Anzeri intricately embroiders directly onto found photographs with colored thread,...

    Italian, b. 1969

    Lives and works in London, UK

     

    Maurizio Anzeri intricately embroiders directly onto found photographs with colored thread, in “an alchemic process of obscuring and revealing, erasing and enhancing.” The faces of serious-looking children, sophisticated adults, and prim newlyweds are obscured by intricate threadwork masks, while leaving exposed an eye, a mouth, or an ear. In his landscapes, diagrammatic rays emanate from both the natural and built environment, suggesting unseen and mysterious phenomena. Anzeri’s deft handiwork turns vintage portraits and landscapes into surreal, psychologically charged images, while upending the conventions of traditional photography. 
     
    Anzeri studied sculpture and graphic design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts, and received his MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; Cardiff Arts Centre, UK; The Box Plymouth, UK; The Levinsky Gallery at the University of Plymouth, UK; and other locations in New York, Milan, Dusseldorf, Turin and London. Notable group exhibitions include New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography at Worcester Art Museum, MA (2024); Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (2021); Self Service at Dallas Contemporary, TX (2019); Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2017); The King and I, Shanghai Gallery of Art, China (2016); The Needle’s Eye: Contemporary Embroidery, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway (2015); Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA (2015); UK Photography Now: The Constructed View, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea (2013); and One Night In Paris, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2009). His work is held in collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; The Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA; Museo Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland; Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany; and the Saatchi, Gagosian, and Rothschild collections.
     

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  • Works
    • Maurizio Anzeri On The Lake C1, 2015 Embroidery on found vintage photograph 19 x 23 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      On The Lake C1, 2015
      Embroidery on found vintage photograph
      19 x 23 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri On The Lake D1, 2015 Embroidery on found vintage photograph 19 x 23 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      On The Lake D1, 2015
      Embroidery on found vintage photograph
      19 x 23 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri Heavenly Sounds: One Boat, 2018 Embroidery on found photograph 23.5 x 19.5 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      Heavenly Sounds: One Boat, 2018
      Embroidery on found photograph
      23.5 x 19.5 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri I Will Be With You The Night Of Your Wedding, 2015 Embroidery on found photograph 17 x 14.75 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      I Will Be With You The Night Of Your Wedding, 2015
      Embroidery on found photograph
      17 x 14.75 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri Bonnie, 2018 Embroidery on found photograph 15.5 x 12.5 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      Bonnie, 2018
      Embroidery on found photograph
      15.5 x 12.5 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri Jackie, 2015 Embroidery on found photograph 12.5 x 10.25 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      Jackie, 2015
      Embroidery on found photograph
      12.5 x 10.25 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri Ella, 2017 Embroidery on found photograph 12.5 x 10.5 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      Ella, 2017
      Embroidery on found photograph
      12.5 x 10.5 inches, framed
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    • Maurizio Anzeri Oliver, 2018 Embroidery on found photograph 14.25 x 12.25 inches, framed
      Maurizio Anzeri
      Oliver, 2018
      Embroidery on found photograph
      14.25 x 12.25 inches, framed
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  • Exhibitions
    • Likenesses

      Likenesses

      July 9 - August 31, 2019
      Haines Gallery proudly presents Likenesses , a group exhibition bringing together works by seven contemporary artists from around the world to explore the conventions, possibilities, and limits of portraiture. The...
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    • Maurizio Anzeri: In-Equilibrio

      Maurizio Anzeri: In-Equilibrio

      November 1 - December 22, 2018
      Haines Gallery is pleased to present In-Equilibrio (In Balance) , a solo exhibition by the Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri (b. 1969; lives and works in London, UK). Anzeri’s first large-scale...
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    • Maurizio Anzeri: Lay it on the Line

      Maurizio Anzeri: Lay it on the Line

      January 6 - February 25, 2017
      London-based Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri is best known for his innovative take on portraiture, using brightly colored embroidery thread to create surreal, uncanny portraits from found vintage photographs. Lay it...
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    • The Stand-ins

      The Stand-ins

      July 7 - September 3, 2016
      This summer, Haines Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled The Stand-ins , featuring new and recent works by Maurizio Anzeri, Kota Ezawa, Chris McCaw, and Sunny A....
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    • The Mapmaker's Dream

      The Mapmaker's Dream

      November 5 - December 23, 2015
      The Mapmaker’s Dream brings together five artist whose works propose inventive and visually compelling ways to map the world around us: Maurizio Anzeri (b. 1969; Italian, lives and works in...
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  • News
    • Maurizio Anzeri Group Exhibition, New Bond Street Art Program Gucci, London, UK June - September, 2024
      News

      Maurizio Anzeri
      Group Exhibition

      New Bond Street Art Program
      Gucci, London, UK
      June - September, 2024
      Maurizio Anzeri's Heavenly Sounds - Pink & Yellow is included in the second curation of Gucci's New Bond Street Art Program. This collection of modern and contemporary artworks at the...
    • Maurio Anzeri Museum Exhibition, New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography Worcester Art Museum, MA April 6 - July 7, 2024
      News

      Maurio Anzeri
      Museum Exhibition

      New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography
      Worcester Art Museum, MA
      April 6 - July 7, 2024
      New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography spotlights how 21st-century artists use different photographic processes to explore the idea of landscape and reinterpret the traditional practice of photography. Comprising approximately 30 artworks...
    • Maurizio Anzeri Museum Exhibition, Faces Cachées La Manufacture de Roubaix, France April 22 - August 27, 2023
      News

      Maurizio Anzeri
      Museum Exhibition

      Faces Cachées
      La Manufacture de Roubaix, France
      April 22 - August 27, 2023
      Museum of memory and textile creation, the Manufacture de Roubaix brings together the work of twenty-one artists from eclectic cultural backgrounds with a theme centered on the mask and its...
  • Press
  • Paul Carey-Kent, "The Ghosts of Saatchi and Fold," Fad Magazine, November 1, 2017

    "Rebel Defiance in ‘Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream’ at Saatchi Gallery, London," Blouin Artinfo, September 6, 2017

    Ariadna Zierold, "Psychological Auras by Maurizio Anzeri," Upperplayground, May 11, 2017

    "Darren Waterson and Maurizio Anzeri at Haines Gallery, San Francisco," BlouinArtInfo, February 1, 2017

    "The Intimate Human Action of Embroidery by Maurizio Anzeri," CultArtes, December 20, 2016

    Maria Porges, "'The Stand-Ins' @ Haines," Squarecylinder.com, August 24, 2016

    Micaela Stanley, "Q & A: Maurizio Anzeri," Flaunt, June 1, 2016

    "The Mapmaker's Dream at Haines Gallery," Fantom, November 2, 2015

    "Maurizio Anzeri Sewing Magic," Dondup, December 23, 2014

    Sean O'Hagan, "Maurizio Anzeri's Embroidered Photographs Make Patterns of the Past," The Guardian, May 9, 2013

    Stefania Vourazeri, "The Embroidered Secrets of Maurizio Anzeri," yatzer, June 24, 2011

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