SPHERICAL
ART

SPHERICAL
ART

ART • RESEARCH • VISION

• ART •
• RESEARCH •
• VISION •

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.

Artistic performance with a reclining body and traces of blue pigment on paper, capturing the origin of Elena Lazzara’s research on the sphere, born in 2003 as a visual intuition about form and perception.

THE BEGINNING OF A SPHERICAL JOURNEY

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.

A luminous red sphere photographed before a tunnel of mirrors that multiplies its reflection, symbolic image of Elena Lazzara’s multidisciplinary Spherical Art—twenty years of research across painting, photography, performance, sculpture and installation.

EXPLORE
SPHERICAL WORK

EXPLORE
SPHERICAL WORK

Abstract black-and-white texture created by rolling a paint-soaked football, from the Ricerca del Segno series, where the sphere becomes a painting tool.

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.

Crystal sphere reflecting the landscape of the Via Sacra dei Castelli Romani with the lakes of Nemi and Castel Gandolfo, merging sky and water into a single inverted reflection.

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.

Live painting performance outdoors, using paint-soaked spheres in rhythm with music, creating layered and doubled visual gestures.

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.

Metal sculpture La Sfera delle Arti, combining bas-relief references to Cubism, Surrealism and Futurism.

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.

Circular prints created from chemically altered rubber spheres pressed onto plexiglass, producing blue organic traces.

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.

Immersive installation with glowing spheres and reflective metal structures redefining perception of space.

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.

Scene from the show "The Angels", physical theatre with performers and candles, where the sphere becomes narrative and presence beyond language.

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 SPHERE AS AWARENESS

THE MANIFESTO
OF SPHERICAL ART

Cover of the Manifesto of Spherical Art, written by Elena Lazzara in 2005: a black cover featuring a transparent sphere as a symbol of perception, awareness, and universal language.

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

Aria by Elena Lazzara on display in an exhibition: a crystal sphere reflects an inner courtyard and the sky, representing the spherical research developed through exhibitions, performances, and international cultural events.

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.