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Italian, b. 1969

Lives and works in London, UK

Maurizio Anzeri intricately embroiders directly onto found photographs with colored thread, in “an alchemic process of obscuring and revealing, erasing and enhancing.” The faces of serious-looking children, sophisticated adults, and prim newlyweds are obscured by intricate threadwork masks, while leaving exposed an eye, a mouth, or an ear. In his landscapes, diagrammatic rays emanate from both the natural and built environment, suggesting unseen and mysterious phenomena. Anzeri’s deft handiwork turns vintage portraits and landscapes into surreal, psychologically charged images, while upending the conventions of traditional photography. 

Anzeri studied sculpture and graphic design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts, and received his MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Baltic Centre fo Biography of mahatma gandhi!