Andrea Loreni

Andrea Loreni

Biography

Born in 1975 in Turin, he graduated in theoretical philosophy with Giuseppe Riconda at the University of Turin. In 1997 he started doing street theater. Since 2006 he has dedicated himself to cable walking at great heights. The intuition of the absolute he had while walking at great heights brings him closer to the practice of Zen meditation, which he deepens under the guidance of Shodo Harada Roshi at the Sogen-ji temple in Okayama, Japan. In 2011 Andrea set the Italian record in the skies of Pennabilli, in Romagna, covering 250 meters at a height of 90mt between the hills of Penna and Billi; while in Rocca Sbarua, in the province of Turin, he walked 160 meters above the ground. Speaker for: University of Milan-Bicocca, various TEDx events, Eni Petroli on Risk, Festival The words of the mountain on Vertigo, Pending Culture, Le murate PAC, Florence, on Suspension; Decathlon annual meeting, Guest of several television broadcasts, including Vertigo the abysses of the soul and Super Quark Special Equilibrium, star of Niccolò Fabi's music video for the song Solo un uomo. Tightrope walker on a fiery cable in the final scene of Matteo Garrone's film, The Tale of Tales; performer for the closing ceremony of the 2019 Naples Universiade; main event for Bangkok street Festival 2019; Andrea Loreni is the author of “Zen and tightrope walking” (2019, Funambolo edizioni) and “Short tightrope walking course for those who walk with the wind. Seven steps to go through life ”(2020, Mondadori).