Giorgio Zeno Graf
CV

works with sculpture, printmaking and installation using recycled materials and everyday objects. His research focuses on disused materials, exploring their ecological, historical and symbolic connections. Through a process that intertwines materiality, gesture and context, he develops new collective narratives linked to themes such as consumption, urban occupation and transformation.

He won the First Prize in “Le stanze dell'arte – Premio giovani artisti Genesi creativa” at the M.A.X. Museo di Chiasso (2020), and has exhibited in group exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2023), Bissone Arte 22 (2022), Spazio Fervida, Lugano (2024), and Castelgrande, Bellinzona (2025).




  WorkYear
SUDARIO2025
CORPO A CORPO2025
CONSUMO MODULARE V2024
CONTRONATURA2024
CRÖISC
2023

GREBEL
2023

BOCION (SYMBIOTIC TERRITORY)
2023

TERRITORY
2023

HABIT II
2022

HABIT I
2022

CONSUMO MODULARE IV
2022

CONSUMO MODULARE III 2022
CONSUMO MODULARE II 2022
CONSUMO MODULARE I 2022
ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA) 2021
STILL LIFE serie
2020

UN PENSIERO TI SI ALLACCIA
2019

KÖRPERSPRACHE, KÖRPERBILD II
2019

SUDARIO2025


2025
exhausted oil, coal, sheets recovered from hospitals
180 × 100 × 290 cm
Installation view: Esoscheletro, Genestrerio

Sudario takes shape from the frottage of a Fiat Panda made on recycled hospital sheets. The car, smeared with used oil and charcoal, becomes a matrix: through direct contact, its shapes are imprinted on the fabric and pass through it, making the image legible on both sides: front and back, outside and inside. The process uses touch and pressure on the body of the car to collect its details, transferring them onto the fabric as signs of an absent presence. The sheets, sewn together, are then displayed on a metal structure that reproduces the original volume of the car, transforming the two-dimensional mark into a three-dimensional body, like a shell that recalls what once was but is no longer there, not identical to itself. It returns an inverted image of familiarity: what appears is both document and simulacrum, understood not as a copy but as a rejection of the original, a self-referential object that offers itself as a new container, devoid of the promise of uniqueness.







Pictures: Giorgia Filipponi



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