Orma ART presents "L’intruso", the most extensive solo exhibition to date by the young Italian painter Lorenzo Zanotti, an artist who has entrusted painting with the most intimate fragments of his experience, allowing them to settle in the studio until they were ready to surface. The exhibition — curated by Barbara Magliocco — offers a three-chapter journey through Zanotti’s pictorial research, structured around Domestic Cycles, Welcome, and Anatomy of an Absence.
Featuring over 21 works, most of them previously unseen, the exhibition highlights the gradual emergence of a visual language interweaving inner silences, isolated visions, and autobiographical fragments. “In this suspended space, the viewer is invited to fill the pauses with their own imagination, to delve into narrative fragments, and to weave nonlinear stories that resonate with personal experience,” notes curator Barbara Magliocco. The exhibition opens with early canvases set in domestic interiors: warm ochre tones, discreet furnishings, and careful perspective studies. From there, it moves toward a figurative turning point, marked by the appearance of an archetypal figure — a bald man with sunken eyes and a pronounced nose — destined to become a recurring, emblematic presence throughout the artist’s later work.