Lorenzo Vitturi

Thanks to the Nestlé Grant from the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018 Lorenzo Vitturi undertook a project inspired by his family’s past. During the 1960s, his Venetian father, crossed the Atlantic to open a glass factory in Peru. The artist went there over fifty years later, taking some raw Murano glass with him, which he then assembled with Peruvian materials, thus exploring the dynamics of intercultural exchange on a worldwide scale through his own story. For Festival Images, Vitturi’s Caminantes, no hay camino, hay que caminar series transformed a CGN cruise ship dock, evoking his father’s journey.

Thanks to the Nestlé Grant from the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018 Lorenzo Vitturi undertook a project inspired by his family’s past. During the 1960s, his Venetian father, crossed the Atlantic to open a glass factory in Peru. The artist went there over fifty years later, taking some raw Murano glass with him, which he then assembled with Peruvian materials, thus exploring the dynamics of intercultural exchange on a worldwide scale through his own story. For Festival Images, Vitturi’s Caminantes, no hay camino, hay que caminar series transformed a CGN cruise ship dock, evoking his father’s journey.