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Ludovico Deluigi (Venice 1933) His father is the well-known spatialist painter Mario De Luigi. From 1950 he made a series of trips, during which he stayed in Turin, Rome, France and the United States. Read the full biography

Ludovico Deluigi (Venice 1933) His father is the well-known spatialist painter Mario De Luigi. From 1950 he made a series of trips, during which he stayed in Turin, Rome, France and the United States. In addition to art, one of his main interests was entomology. In 1959 his passion for the Venetian landscape artists drove him to assiduously frequent the Gallery of Palazzo Corsini in Rome where, with long study, he appropriated Canaletto's pictorial technique, to the point of imitating him with true mastery. The first exhibitions began in 1965 with the solo exhibition at the Galleria Il Canale in Venice. Wide views of a crumbling and monumental Venice invaded by crowds of insects and other fantastic beings are met with critical acclaim. Alongside the genre of landscape painting and entomology, he becomes a pictorial prophet of the threats looming over Venice: high water, pollution, the advent of technology, the commodification of the city. Venice is represented in surreal visions, thanks to a meticulous oil technique to which is later added the absolutely original use of the computer's "electronic brush". In the 1980s De Luigi approached sculpture by dedicating himself to the execution of enormous bronze horses, taking inspiration from the famous quadriga of the Basilica of San Marco as an alternative to the rough copies now placed on his frontispiece. De Luigi's horses can be found in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth, Bolzano.