Maurizio Pellegrin

Maurizio Pellegrin was born in Venice. He lives in New York and Venice. He holds a Master degree in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. He studied Sociology at New School University, and Eastern Philosophy at New York University, New York. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, and he holds the equivalent of the American MFA in Studio Art. He is currently the Executive Director and founder of the New York School of the Arts and of the Hub Cultural Center in New York City.

Maurizio began showing his work in the early Eighties. By the middle of the decade, he was creating installations with his structured and organised system of objects and their symbolic associations. He arranged found objects that he had gathered during his travels around the world, channeling his interested in the way objects transmit energy and how the memory of their use remains. He sees objects as the testimony of human life and artifacts of memory, as well as the remains of life after death. He ascribes meaning to his work based on the science of Numerology, or the study of numbers and their influence on human life based on their symbolic and arithmetic values. His installations deal with the concept of space – both physical and philosophical – becoming universes organised by symbols and metaphors.