Luigi Carboni Biography
Luigi Carboni is an artist born in Pesaro in 1957. Since his first works in the Seventies, he has stood out for his personal painting, which does not lend itself to labelling, experimenting with different materials and techniques, including painting, sculpture, photography and installation. In 1983 he held his first solo exhibition at the Spazia Gallery in Bologna and from that moment his collective and personal exhibitions followed one another both in Italy and abroad.
Since the 1990s, Carboni's work has concentrated above all on painting, often monochrome, which he studies with a more cultured and refined aesthetic aspect. His technique is meticulous and is based on an autonomous sense of painting that is based only on its own language. His painting expresses itself in a visual polyphony, where abstraction and figuration, reality and artifice, minimalism and decoration coexist.
Initially, Carboni developed a tactile painting, aimed at the surface, where signs emerge almost in bas-relief which become leaves, anatomical parts, maps, insects and arabesques which thicken the texture of the painting until it becomes almost impenetrable. Subsequently, his painting evolves to seek an interior depth that is expressed through illusory cracks on the canvas, circular holes and circles like lenses. His painting is presented in fragments and investigates the boundary between figuration and abstraction.
Carboni has solo exhibitions in many important private galleries and institutional spaces around the world. Among the main ones we can mention the Jack Shainman Gallery in Washington and New York, the Alberto Weber Gallery in Turin, Studio Scalise in Naples, Studio la Città in Verona, Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam, Galerij Verplancke-Van Bavel in Bruges, Schloss Galerie of Nordkirchen, Galleria Barnabò in Venice and Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan.
He has also participated in numerous collective exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, in institutions and foundations such as the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona, the Fondazione Pescheria Centro Arti Visive in Pesaro and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
