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Maurizio Orrico (born 10 August 1962) is an Italian artist.

Biography
In the early nineties his frequent travels to the USA lead him to take a part in important collective exhibitions. 1994, his first solo show at Léo Castell i Gallery, NY. In the Following years he devoted himself to analogic photography and use others mediums : video art, installation, sculpture.

2004, he took part in the exposition I LOVE 3T (Talent, technology, tolerance) Futurshow 3004 "Information and communications technology".

2005, he participates with Jan Braar Christensen at BoundLess Exhibition, Stenersen Museum in Oslo.

To Centro d'Arte La Bussola the artist présents a cycle of 20 works on the theme of the animal clone translation.

2006, Solo Show organized by Italo Zannier à ZERO5, « Animalia ». Orrico summarizes the pecuiar features of the animal to discover news forms though the graphical visualization of digital technology and results in effects of painting,in axaltation of colors, free from objective tradition of photography, as facsimile.

2008, he exhibits at 11° International Architecture Exhibition of Venice « Out There : Architecture Beyond Building » a sculpture « I Viaggiatori », three 20ft tall men, made in ureol, a ligntweight material, resistant to thermal expansions and atmospheric agents that jumps over the obstacle of time, responding to strongly settled habits that created an anthropological mutation.

On the occasion of 2010 « Better city, better life » in Shanghai he's chosen with Mimmo Paladino to represent Italy and exposes « Red Men » in the project « An Italian garden » of Italy Pavillon  and in the section Italien Urban Best Practices Area « Sustainable Cities in Italien Style », shows a sculpture « Equilibrio », a man who extracts himself from a sphere that represents Mother Earth.

2011, 54° Biennale de Venise, he exhibits a marble work « Vuoto ». It's a Carrara white marble sculpure, it depicts a crouching man with a knee on the ground who seeks to collect the chips of the parts of his body that have gone shattered. The interior is hollow, it is the universal and absolute emptiness, the exixistetial loss that we all sufffer in moments of solitude, without affections and without emotions. He exhibits to the Villa Torlonia an other Viaggiatore.

The Gallery Marzia Frozen of Berlin exhibits a series of works that trace his artistic career : painting, analogic and digital photography, sculpture, installation and video and he participates in Celeste prize.

For the cathédrale de Cosenza, a Unesco, world Heritage site, he carves from a block of white marble a Cathedra draped in minimalistic lines.

2013, « Il sentiero evolutivo dell'anima », a sculpture that represents Butterfly wings is exhibited in Milan, curator Achille Bonito Oliva.

2015, le Musée Carlo Bilotti of Rome, the exhibition « Light Shapes: between Berlin and Beijing », curator Italo Zannier.

BOCS ART Cosenza, Performance « Ingordigia ».BocsArt

2017, Vittorio Sgarbi delivers to the Holocaust Memorial Shoah in Milan 10 cardboard house pressed, waterproof, fireproof and remavable of social projectmaison of Maurizio Orrico, « House of tramp »,.

2018, Sifrein Gallery presents "Home is where the house is", two ephemeral transparentglass houses are juxtaposed, the communication with the outside world only passes through the body. The artistic commitment lies in the desire to lead the Spectator to a greater awareness and respect for man and nature. The historian and art critic Giovanni Lista writes "Maurizio Orrico, an artist of the ontogenesis".

2019, In Milano, Maurizio Orrico with "Slow food" and City Angels Italia associations presents in some restaurants carboard tables for homeless.