Maurizio Anzeri

Born in Loiano, Italy in 1969. Maurizio Anzeri studied Sculpture and Graphic Design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts in 1996-99 and at The Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2002-2005 getting an MA in Fine Art and Sculpture.


Artist Statement

I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols. I then use sewing and embroidery in a further attempt to re-signify, and mark the space with a man-made sign, a trace. The intimate human action of embroidery is a ritual of making and reshaping stories and history of these people. I am interested in the relation between intimacy and the outer world.

“I put tracing paper over the photo and draw on the face until it develops. ……When I begin the stitching something else happens, drawing will never do what thread will.”