"The Lexicon" Collage

Born in Bari in 1984, lives and works in Matera, Italy

Visual artist, collage artist, draftsman of the fantastic, filmmaker, and documentary director. His work explores the relationship between image, geometry, and lived space, with attention to material stratification and light as an active element of composition. Among his recognitions: Fondazione Southeritage (Guggenheim Prize for Enterprise & Culture), World Urban Forum 7 in Medellín, Museo del Presente in Milan, Matera European Capital of Culture 2019.

LOMO's work unfolds primarily on paper, through series sharing a common ground: the relationship between image, geometry, and the construction of space — both real and imagined. His background as a draftsman of the fantastic, filmmaker, and documentary director shapes a practice where the real and the imaginary are never fully separated. The roots run deep into the symbolic landscape of Basilicata: the Sassi of Matera, a cave-dwelling civilization that transformed necessity into beauty, stone into shelter, darkness into architecture. That stratification of material, time, and reflected light returns as an invisible but constant signature.

Layers 3 (active series)

The Layers 3 series stems from a precise observation: the wallpaper in the works of Layers 2 led LOMO to reflect on living spaces, particularly interiors from design magazines, where materials signal social status and refinement. The rooms become suites — not ordinary rooms, but environments reflecting an affluent status and, above all, the amplitude of space.

In Suite N.1, LOMO opens up a space within the living area, playing with color, the richness and luminosity of gold leaf, and the geometric layouts typical of interior design magazines — the very source of the room image he clipped out. That image becomes an element of the collage itself: a decorative component rather than the central subject. Throughout L3, the composition is built upon new geometries incorporating color, light, and classic living-space forms. The surface is constructed through layering: collage introduces textures and material fragments, while acrylic defines color fields interacting with the shifting gleam of gold leaf — a material capable of capturing and reflecting ambient light in ever-changing ways, depending on the time of day and the viewer's vantage point.