Interviews and texts
In the work of Loris Cecchini (born in Milan, 1969), photography, drawing, sculpture and installation combine to form a unified poetics . Cecchini’s work owes as much to his expertise of a broad range of media as to his indefatigable curiosity. The subjects that appear in his work include multiple collages and detailed architectural models, objects in rubber, reinvented caravans and tree houses, structurally distorted spaces, and prismatic, transparent covers and surfaces.
His series Monologue Patterns are idealized dwelling systems on wheel, small spaces designed around the idea of caravan, the trailer, the roulotte, a nomadic space for definition, combining sculpture and the tradition of utopic architecture to form a spatial and visual - poetical experience; some of them are up on the trees, with different characteristics, but always as places related to a sort of “poetical distance”.
Incorporating elements from various interdisciplinary fields from chemistry to groundbreaking technologies, his work playfully investigates the limits of creation generating a continuous detection of exciting art outcomes whose definitions are ever changing.
Biological metaphor and motion represent core philosophies behind the artist’s investigation and fundamental basis in his projects.
His Wallwave Vibration series or what the artist refers to as ‘extruding bodies’, a physical manifestation of a pulsation resembling a fluid’s whose balance has been disseminated to form a delicate electromagnetic wave. With these works, the context of the space is transformed and fragility is incorporated within the supporting structure as the artist simultaneously uses space as a subject and material, establishing at the same time new definitions of sculpture.
Cecchini has continuously introduced the concept of the organic element as a central element of his work, in part as an exploration of the idea of the object and its inherent materiality but also as a minimalist practice. Acting with the lens of a scientist, Cecchini closely examines his modules initially starting with basic 3D or watercolor studies moving forward toward the particularity of natural elements
Cecchini’s module-based installations, a calculated chain of stainless steel elements originating from his preliminary inquiries again using organism, as a leitmotif in his work to address the intricate evolution of art in relation to sciences. In a wide range of works, Cecchini join together his steel modules to form a semblance of climbing plants, corals or crystals structures, organically deriving in an array of bewildering trails contrasting the deliberate intention of the propagation.
His series Monologue Patterns are idealized dwelling systems on wheel, small spaces designed around the idea of caravan, the trailer, the roulotte, a nomadic space for definition, combining sculpture and the tradition of utopic architecture to form a spatial and visual - poetical experience; some of them are up on the trees, with different characteristics, but always as places related to a sort of “poetical distance”.
Incorporating elements from various interdisciplinary fields from chemistry to groundbreaking technologies, his work playfully investigates the limits of creation generating a continuous detection of exciting art outcomes whose definitions are ever changing.
Biological metaphor and motion represent core philosophies behind the artist’s investigation and fundamental basis in his projects.
His Wallwave Vibration series or what the artist refers to as ‘extruding bodies’, a physical manifestation of a pulsation resembling a fluid’s whose balance has been disseminated to form a delicate electromagnetic wave. With these works, the context of the space is transformed and fragility is incorporated within the supporting structure as the artist simultaneously uses space as a subject and material, establishing at the same time new definitions of sculpture.
Cecchini has continuously introduced the concept of the organic element as a central element of his work, in part as an exploration of the idea of the object and its inherent materiality but also as a minimalist practice. Acting with the lens of a scientist, Cecchini closely examines his modules initially starting with basic 3D or watercolor studies moving forward toward the particularity of natural elements
Cecchini’s module-based installations, a calculated chain of stainless steel elements originating from his preliminary inquiries again using organism, as a leitmotif in his work to address the intricate evolution of art in relation to sciences. In a wide range of works, Cecchini join together his steel modules to form a semblance of climbing plants, corals or crystals structures, organically deriving in an array of bewildering trails contrasting the deliberate intention of the propagation.
Jade Vlietstra
15/05/2024
Fluctuation, 2023 in AAVV. Waterbones (nightfall), Arte nel Paesaggio, a cura di Giada Rodani e Jade Vlietstra, Federighi Editori, Certaldo, 2023 (Italian/English) ISBN 979-12-80681-33-1 ...moreGiada Rodani
15/05/2024
A vision augmented by the universe, in AAVV. Waterbones (nightfall), Arte nel Paesaggio, a cura di Giada Rodani e Jade Vlietstra, Federighi Editori, Certaldo, 2023 (Italian/English) ISBN 979-12-80681-33-1 ...moreRiccardo Caldura
12/04/2019
Emulsione, Atrio Monumentale ASP ITIS, Trieste, Italy, 12/04/2019 - 08/06/2019 ...moreMarco Tonelli
15/05/2024
Waterbones: spazio di relazioni, in Loris Cecchini. Hypermeasures, Spoleto, Manfredi Editioni, 2019 (Italian/English) ISBN: 979-12-80049-50-6 ...moreLorenzo Fiorucci
15/05/2024
Loris Cecchini Waterbones. La scultura come sistema, in Loris Cecchini. Hypermeasures, Spoleto, Manfredi Editioni, 2019 (Italian/English) ISBN: 979-12-80049-50-6 ...moreStefano Pezzato
14/06/2018
Waterbones, Loris Cecchini, in Waterbones, Gruppo Editoriale, 2018 Prato,(Italian/English) ...moreThomas W. Eller
15/01/2015
Liminality in Loris Cecchini, Emotional Diagrams and Other Micrologies, New York, Leila Heller Gallery, 2014 (English) ...moreMarco Meneguzzo
09/11/2014
Module and model in I quaderni 3, Milan, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2014 (Italian/English) ...moreA dialogue on the structure and its absence and other things
22/01/2014
Loris Cecchini interviewed by Marco Meneguzzo in Loris Cecchini, Modulo e modello, The Arnaldo Pomodoro Award for Sculpture, I quaderni 3, Milan, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2014 (Italian/English) ...moreFranziska Nori
24/04/2012
in Aerial Boundaries, curated by F. Nori, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 30/04/2012 - 01/07/2012 ...moreConversazione tra Loris Cecchini e Alessandro Castiglioni
04/09/2009
Perdere il reale per ridefinire il reale ...moreMimmo di Marzio
14/12/2024
Technological Hybridation in AAVV, The Five Rings. Cinque artisti al Forte di Exilles, Milan, Allemandi, 2006 ...moreJèrome Sans
27/09/2004
A lenticular dialogue, in Arte all’Arte (6° edizione), a cura di Jérome Sans e Pier Luigi Tazzi, progetto speciale, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italia, Gli Ori, Siena, 2001 ...moreLuca Cerizza
13/10/2001
L’ultimo spettacolo, in Loris Cecchini, Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein (Italian/English/German) ...moreGianfranco Maraniello
13/10/2001
BBBreathless in 49° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, Platea dell’Umanità curated by Harald Szeemann, Milan, Electa, 2001 ...moreHans Gercke
20/03/2001
Mind the Gap in Loris Cecchini, Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein (Italian/English/German) 2001 ...moreAchille Bonito Oliva
13/10/2000
Loris Cecchini e la porta dell’attimo in Sketchbook, drawings.projects.works>2000>2003, Maschietto&Musolino editore, Firenze ...moreAlessandra Pioselli
12/02/2000
Palcoscenici per giocare, AAVV, Loris Cecchini, Galleria Continua San Gimignano, Edizioni NuovaLitoEffe, Castelvetro Piacentino (PC), Gennaio 2000 ...moreGianfranco Maraniello
13/10/2000
Essere giocati dall’artista AAVV, Loris Cecchini, Cargo, Associazione Percorsi, Neaples, 2000 ...moreLuca Pancrazzi
04/02/2025
Sparire costruendo palafitte in Invita, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, 1997 pag.31-34 ...moreFederico Tanzi-Mira
04/02/2025
The impossible man in Pause in Background, Caserta, Galleria Studio Legale, 1997 (Italian/English) ...moreAugusto Pieroni
04/02/1999
Stereoreale in Loris Cecchini, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Köln, 1999 ...moreAugusto Pieroni
04/02/1998
21st CENTURY SCHYZOID MAN in N. 1 Numero Uno. Periodico del Palazzo delle Papesse centro arte contemporanea. Siena.1998 ...more