Lorenzo started out as a surrealist painter after studying at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York, but found his work endlessly compared to Dali’s, so switched to sculpture twenty years ago. “If you are going to create something it has to be unique, so I had to find my own niche. My art is to do with communication, I have a lot of things I want to say to the world and I do this through my work. To me sculpture is never just figurative or decorative, it’s the message behind the work that is so important. I might have an idea for a sculpture but then I start asking myself “What does this figure say?” They have to have a meaning, it’s very important that people understand, but I want it to be an immediate response. I don’t want people to sit down and have to think too much in front of it.

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