Maurizio Vetrugno's Eclectic Art at Guido Costa Projects in Turin

Maurizio Vetrugno, born in Turin in 1957, is an artist described as 'eclectic by vocation' and 'heretical and iconoclastic by nature.' He was a key figure among the enfatisti in Bologna during the 1970s and has been active in Bali since the 1980s. Vetrugno gained international fame for his ironic, synesthetic, and experimental hybridization of arts. His work decenters creativity through a dialectic between East and West and employs anachronistic techniques such as embroidery, batik, photography, applied arts, and music with pop, beat, and punk influences. He creates sound and interactive installations, blending mass culture, minority linguistics, and experimental poetry, anticipating crossover culture and addressing themes of manipulation, drift, and dissidence. A performance transformed the artist's experience into a musical score accompanied by a theatrical reading of his unpublished early poems (1976-1979) and Jeff Koons's sculpture Flowers (1986) used as an instrument. The exhibition was held at Guido Costa Projects in Turin.