Luca Di Luzio

Luca Di Luzio was born in Rome in 1986, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Rome. In 2013, he participated in two artistic residencies: "C.A.M.A.C" in Marnay sur Seine (France) and in Rotterdam at the "Hommes" gallery, and it is during this period that the artist began the geographical and geopictorial research that has made Luca Di Luzio a distinctive figure in the European artistic panorama.

In "Maps and Flags," the first of these series, the artist maps a universe starting from shapes and colors, introducing the audience into a parallel geographical system. The research continues in "Loka," where the coexistence of different worlds and entities is represented with an Indo-Buddhist cosmology, with only a hint of geographical language. Geography remains imaginary, with no reference to physical or political entities.

Since 2015, Di Luzio has been working on the project "Atlas Ego Imago Mundi." Here, the body becomes the very creator of the world, no longer a barrier between inside and outside, but the very matrix of the imaginary. In creating his geographies, Di Luzio actively intervenes on the canvas, striking it with his body infused with color and creating islands, archipelagos, and continents alive with the chaotic harmony of nature. Comprising about forty maps and a real atlas, Atlas is a profound reflection on the centrality of the human body and its ambiguity. His works are a revelation at the intersection of the experience of the world and belonging to it. Influenced by the philosophy of the French Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the body becomes a creator: "The body is not a point of contact between a supposed interiority and exteriority, but a real matrix, through our body we create the world in every moment we are living."

Another aspect of the map that the artist emphasizes is its openness to the indefinite, its continuity elsewhere, and therefore its incompleteness. Parallels and meridians, finally, trace a real geographic system that takes the Vitruvian Man as a reference, allowing the organization of maps in an atlas and leading the imagined worlds back to the individual parts of the body used to create them. "Atlas Ego Imago Mundi" is a structured, touching, refined work, the result of years of research at the intersection of painting, geography, and philosophy.

Also, "Lo Stato," Luca Di Luzio's latest series of works, uses matrices of color in place of the brush. This time, the aesthetic research starts from the forms of the States themselves, of which stamps are created. These, replacing the brush, appear on the canvas in abstract compositions, alienating the State represented from its historical and political value and leading it back to its pure aesthetics, to shapes, to colors. These create abstract compositions on Japanese paper, making this series another elegant testimony to the artist's decade-long research.

Luca Di Luzio has exhibited both in Italy and abroad, participating in numerous international art fairs. In 2021, he won the Special Utopia Prize, Talent Prize 2021, and in 2022, he was a finalist for the Cairo Prize, an important national recognition that every year includes the most promising emerging Italian artists.

Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Viaggio Analogo, Cascianelli, Rome.

2022 Borders, curated by G.Lopriore, Galleria D’Arte Ventoblu, Polignano a Mare.

2021 Geopittura, curated by di M.Tonelli, Galleria Russo, Roma.

2019 Antropografia, curated by

G. Giambrone, Fondamenta Gallery, Roma.

2017 Atlas Ego Imago Mundi, curated by

A. Cestelli Guidi, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma.

2017 Nuove Ricerche, Galleria Russo, Roma.

2017 From Rome, Great Far Beyond, Philadelphia (U.S.A ).

2011 Cronaca Gialla, curated by T. Musi, La Porta Blu Gallery, Roma.

Museums and Art Fairs:

2019 Paratissima, ADA, Turin, IT.

2019 ArtVerona, Verona, IT.

2018 ArtVerona, Verona, IT.

2018 Artefiera, Bologna, IT.

2017 ArtVerona, Verona, IT.

2016 16 : 13 , M.A.C.R.O Museum, Rome, IT.

Group Exhibitions:

2022 Premio Cairo, Palazzo Reale, Milano. IT

2019 AlbumArte 20 x 20, 2019 , curated by C.L.Pisano, AlbumArte, Rome, IT.

2019 Istanbul, curated by C.Vilches, Galleria Russo, Rome, IT.

2018 Ieri, Oggi, Domani, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati, IT.

2018 ADA Your Art and Design Advisor, curated by P.Lauro, Palazzo Doria Pamphilj , Rome, IT.

2017 Masters Salon Painting, Royal Academy of Antwerp, Antwerp, BE.

2017 Tiny Biennale, Temple University, Rome, IT.

2016 Sublimina, curated by collettivo curatoriale LUISS, Museo delle Mura , Rome, IT.

2016 Labirinto Labirynt , The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw (POL) 2016 Any given book , White Noise Gallery, Roma. IT

2016 Oltre i libri , Biblioteca Angelica, Roma.

2016 Declinazione magnetica , White Noise Gallery, Set Up Art Fair, Bologna. IT

2015 Any given post-it , White Noise Gallery, Roma. IT

2013 Maps and Flags , CK12 A.I.R. Open Studio, Rotterdam. HO

2013 C.A.M.A.C Open Studio , C.A.M.A.C, Marnay sur Seine. FR

2010 Start Point , Istituto degli Innocenti, Firenze / Florence. IT

Residencies and Awards:

2022 Finalist Premio Cairo.

2021 Premio Speciale Utopia, Talent

Prize 2021.

2013 Hommes CK12 Artist in Residence, Rotterdam (PB).

2013 C.A.M.A.C, Marnay sur Seine (FR).

2010 Summer Art, California State University, Fresno (U.S.A)

Catalogs:

2021 LUCA DI LUZIO GEOPITTURA , Manfredi Edizioni, ISBN 979-1-280-04919-3