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What fashion, advertising and magazine work has Lorenzo Mattotti done?
Lorenzo Mattotti (born Brescia, 24 January 1954; based in Paris) has drawn 32 covers for The New Yorker (collected in 2018), the Louis Vuitton Travel Book "Vietnam" (2014) and an LV Art Silk Square, fashion campaigns for GFT and fashion reinterpretations for Condé Nast Italia's Vanity, alongside the Venice and Cannes film festival posters.
He began in comics in the late 1970s; key books include Fuochi (1984), Stigmate (with Claudio Piersanti), The Raven with Lou Reed (2011) and Hansel and Gretel with Neil Gaiman. He directed the animated film La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (2019). The New Yorker covers were shown at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York in 2018, curated by Melania Gazzotti and Françoise Mouly.
He is represented by Galerie Martel in Paris, WM Arte Gallery's partner; in Kuala Lumpur, WM Arte sources his editions on enquiry.