(b 1969Italy. Lives and works in London)
Maurizio Anzeri works in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, drawing and traditional craft techniques. He intricately embroiders directly onto found photographs with coloured 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. Anzeri’s deft handiwork turns vintage portraits and landscapes into surreal, psychologically charged images, while upending the conventions of traditional photography.
