Tiziana Lorenzelli (1961 Lecco, Italy) is an Italian artist, architect, designer, author, and lecturer.
She graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1984 and subsequently moved to Los Angeles (1990–1992) to teach Industrial Design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Since 1989, she has worked as a freelance journalist for the digital daily Il Giornale d’Italia and has collaborated with specialist design magazines including Abitare, Domus, Interni, Modo, and Ottagono. She has published several books and holds multiple patents for her design projects, which have received numerous awards and recognitions.
Since the mid-1980s, Lorenzelli has combined her design practice with art, focusing on the theme of Nature through the use of recycled or innovative metals. Between 1985 and 1993, she created the Alberi Elettrologici, a series of sculptures inspired by nature and recycling, made from industrial metal scraps from Lecco. These works were first exhibited in 1989 at the Biennale dei Giovani Artisti at Castello di Sartirana and Villa Bernocchi, and were published in various magazines.
Since 1997, she has taught Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano, and since 2008 at the Faculty of Engineering in Brescia. During these years, she continued exploring new materials in design and art. In 2009, she developed Aluflexia®, a highly sophisticated material initially conceived for the FOIL vase—a design object awarded the 2011 International Design Award in Los Angeles. She later used Aluflexia® for a series of sculptures inspired by Nature and the Cosmos, first exhibited in 2012 at the 100% Recyclable exhibition at MEAND Space in Saint Moritz.
In recent years, Lorenzelli has participated in both group and solo exhibitions internationally. In 2019, she presented works in The Nascence at the Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery in Dubai, followed by her solo show Goldish (2021) at Forte dei Marmi, where artist Agostino Ferrari defined her research as “Cosmic Naturalism”. Other notable exhibitions include Architect’s Art at the Gallery of Functional Art in Santa Monica (1992), Arte a Bordo, 41 Artisti per Costa Diadema (2014), and Surprise at Superstudio Più, Milan (2021).
Lorenzelli’s practice explores the convergence of art, design, and nature, emphasizing sustainability, material innovation, and a poetic dialogue between human perception and the cosmos.
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