Born in Italy, I received my Degree (Hons) from Roma’s Academy of Fine Arts and a Postgraduate in Iconography from the University of Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia. I also attended courses in fine art conservation. I now live in Rome where I paint in a shared artists studio and contribute to the restoration of classical painting, frescos and buildings being a leading expert in conservation in Italy. I am very well travelled and the images, colours and smell of countries I have been in are part of my inspiration and aesthetic feeling.
Art it is not only the make of objects. It is not only related to its aesthetic values, though, the hegemony of the eye is very strong in our visual culture. Art cannot be defined in individualistic terms, no more. In the modernist idea, the artist’s mission was endorsed within the sacred space of a studio, behind closed doors. The myth of the lone genius, disconnected from ordinary life and action, isolated from society, and relieved of social responsibility is not applicable anymore. Many artists recognize that we live in a state of emergency in which the artist sensibility needs to step out from the thigh ribbon of the art establishment and move away from the approach of disinterested observation of a purely aesthetic piece to something that is more participatory and engaged. Art is politics, it is spirituality, it is society, it is social values, and it is at the service of something. Artist as such cannot be constricted within closed doors. Artists recognizing this emergency can no longer consider making art that carries no responsibility, art without spiritual content or art that reject the condition of the very world in which it exists. Globalization enhance the need of artists to confront their local/ regional/national identities within a global scale and recognise that different culture experience ever similar problematic. Perhaps, by understanding conflict at local level, artists from different background and experienc
Lorenzo Budello was born in Leonforte (Enna, Sicily) in 1959. His father migrated to Rome for better opportunities when Lorenzo was 12, and Lorenzo has lived in this city ever since. He gained an A-level in Electronics and in 1988 graduated from the “Istituto delle Belle Arti” in Rome. In 1989 he won a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which allowed him to attend a Post-Graduate course in Iconographic and religious art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tiblisi (Georgia). He was forced to leave the country at the beginning of the Civil war in 1992, but returned to Georgia after the restoration of peace in 1995. He permanently moved back to Rome in 1998 after a further period of travelling and working on various location and artistic projects. Since then, Lorenzo Budello has established himself as a well respected art, frescos and historical building conservator and restorer alongside his own fine art painting career.
Since he was twenty years old, Lorenzo Budello has travelled extensively in many countries in the world, including Jordan, Egypt, Jerusalem, Israel, Morocco, Nepal, Greece, Georgia, Ukraine, USSR, Thailand, Island, Guatemala, Belize, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and South Dakota. All these places and the people he met have left imprints in his mind.
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