SPHERICAL
ART
SPHERICAL
ART
ART • RESEARCH • VISION
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An ongoing artistic research exploring the sphere as a perceptual, cognitive, and expressive form.
Since 2003, artist and creative director Elena Lazzara has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, photography, performance, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and theater.
More than an artistic practice, Spherical Art is an evolving system where the sphere becomes a universal language connecting perception, cognition, creativity, and human experience.
An ongoing artistic research exploring the sphere as a perceptual, cognitive, and expressive form.
Since 2003, artist and creative director Elena Lazzara has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, photography, performance, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and theater.
More than an artistic practice, Spherical Art is an evolving system where the sphere becomes a universal language connecting perception, cognition, creativity, and human experience.
Where It All Began
In 2003, a simple sphere became the origin of a visual intuition that gradually evolved into a structured artistic research.
What began as experimentation with form and perception developed into a coherent system of exploration across multiple disciplines.
A RESEARCH IN CONSTANT EVOLUTION
Twenty Years of
Spherical Research
Across more than two decades, Elena Lazzara has developed a continuous multidisciplinary investigation of the sphere as a generative principle.
This artistic practice evolves through painting, photography, performance, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and theater, where each discipline contributes to a unified language of perception and creation.
EXPLORE
SPHERICAL WORK
EXPLORE
SPHERICAL WORK
SPHERICAL PAINTING
THE SPHERE AS MARK
Painting marks the origin of the entire spherical research.
Through spheres of different sizes and materials, the sphere as mark transforms gesture into a visual system where rhythm, movement, and color reveal the first principles of Spherical Art.
SPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
THE SPHERE AS LENS
Photography redefines perception through reflection and inversion.
Since 2006, the sphere as lens has been used as an optical device that transforms landscapes, portraits, architecture, and cultural spaces into alternative visual experiences, where familiar reality is continuously reinterpreted.
SPHERICAL PERFORMANCE
THE SPHERE AS GESTURE
Performance becomes the living expression of Spherical Art in motion.
Through contact juggling, live painting, music, and interaction, the sphere as gesture creates evolving visual compositions shared with the audience.
SPHERICAL SCULPTURE
THE SPHERE AS PRESENCE
From conceptual studies to large-scale public proposals, sculpture investigates the sphere as an architectural presence capable of shaping space, balance, and collective experience.
SPHERICAL PRINTMAKING
THE SPHERE AS IMPRINT
Printmaking translates the visual language of Spherical Art into surface, trace, and repetition.
Through experimental processes involving pressure, corrosion, and transfer, the sphere as imprint generates evolving imprints that become layered visual systems.
SPHERICAL INSTALLATION
THE SPHERE AS ENVIRONMENT
Installation extends the artistic language of Spherical Art into immersive environments. Glass, mirrored surfaces, metal, and light are combined to construct spatial systems where the sphere as environment redefines perception, reflection, movement, and the relationship between viewer and space.
SPHERICAL THEATER
THE SPHERE AS CHARACTER
The sphere becomes character, silence, and storytelling.
Through physical theater, mime, and object-based performance, movement becomes narrative, allowing the body to communicate beyond words. On stage, the sphere transcends the role of a prop, becoming a living presence that shapes emotion, rhythm, and imagination.
THE MANIFESTO
OF SPHERICAL ART
Written by Elena Lazzara in 2005, the Manifesto of Spherical Art defines Spherical Art as a radical shift in the understanding of creativity.
It states that every human action is a creative act, and that each gesture contributes to the continuous construction of the world we inhabit as a shared, living structure.
At the center of the manifesto lies a precise principle: every individual life is a sphere. Each existence is complete in itself, defined by its own movement, perception, and trajectory. Every individual sphere reflects and influences others, generating a larger spherical system in constant transformation.
From this perspective, Spherical Art becomes the medium through which this structure is made visible and conscious.
Through artistic practice, the relationship between individual and collective spheres is revealed, experienced, and rebalanced.
Art is the space where these spheres resonate together, allowing the fragmented perception of reality to be understood as a unified spherical field in motion.
A JOURNEY
THROUGH SPHERICAL RESEARCH
SPHERICAL EXHIBITIONS
Over two decades, Elena Lazzara’s work has been presented through exhibitions, performances, and cultural events across Europe and Egypt. Each presentation expands the spherical research into new contexts, reinforcing its evolution as a continuous and interconnected artistic system.