Born in Sant’Antonino di Susa in 1957, he lives and works in Turin.

In the poetry of Maurizio Vetrugno there are objects, embroidery, paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, “detectors” of – through the artist’s interpolation – the way that everything connects with everything.

Suggestions all coming from areas far away: the punk-rock world, religion, blasphemy, mathematics, sociology, which are combined in a great game of aesthetic and semantic relations, conducted with the delicate and light hand of Maurizio Vetrugno.

Vetrugno’s personal exhibitions:

ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary, 2013 – Nature Morte Gallery, Berlin, “Love, Commas and Asterisks” – Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2012), “Lead Baloon” – Church of the Magdalene, Alba and “Meteorite in the Garden” – Fondazione Merz, Turin (2011), “Les paramours” – Photo & Contemporary, Turin (2009), “Part false part true” – Ministry of Taste, Marrakesh (2003), Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva (1997), “Electricity Comes from Other Planets “- Rebaudengo (1995),” Maurizio Vetrugno “- Castello di Rivara-Centre of Contemporary Art (1989)

Vetrugno’s group exhibitions: BAM Biennale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea del Piemonte 2014 – L’Imbiancheria del Vajro, Torino, “Portable” – Biasa Art Space, Bali, Indonesia, “Preziosa Opera” – Villa Scalcabrozzi, Valenza, Italy, “Shit and Die” – Palazzo Cavour, Torino nel 2014, “Emphatism” – Studio 522, New York, “Pesca alla Trota in America” – Guido Costa Project Torino, “Poses and Views” – Nature Morte Berlin, Berlin, Germany nel 2013, “Il Perturbante” – Guido Costa Project, Torino nel 2012, “What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?” – Rossi & Rossi Contemporary, London nel 2011.