Gino Luggi Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Gino Luggi was born in 1935 in Bisenti, Teramo. In the 1950s he studied painting and sculpture between Rome and Paris and later lived between Parma, Mantua and Milan. Read the full biography

Gino Luggi was born in 1935 in Bisenti, Teramo. In the 1950s he studied painting and sculpture between Rome and Paris and later lived between Parma, Mantua and Milan. Since 1964 he has exhibited at various exhibitions in Italy and abroad, freeing himself from surrealist matrices to start research into abstraction which will lead him to create non-objective works since the mid-1960s. In 1970 he was invited to the Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais in Paris, where he returned in 1977 and 2000. In the 1980s he worked on the geometric score of the sheet and began to operate on the golden section of the square, also experimenting with supports other than paper and canvas depending on the response to different stresses of rigid surfaces. The consequence of this path is the trespassing into three-dimensionality, the adoption of polygonal shapes, the spatial articulation of the object. In addition to the ever-increasing definition of the mental and attitudinal rigor to which the artist subjects his works, there is also the investigation into texture and the use of colour; in fact the adoption of primary and complementary colors subsequently gives way to the preference for black-white polars, with some incursions of bright chromaticism functional to the exaltation of the tension-structural nodes of the work. The interest in the construction of mobile reliefs is manifested in the coplanales that act on the surrounding environment, explaining the potential of the relational dynamics of the differently cut, folded and superimposed planes according to linear directions that are always varied, never inert. The object itself is a system of relationships that escapes the closed and monodic universe of the work to involve space and the visual referent. The work on the positive-negative binary of the surfaces and the double chromatic register ensures the dialectical alternation and at the same time the dynamic synthesis of the created structure. In 1995 he joined the International Madi Movement and from this date he participated in all the events dedicated to the artistic grouping in Italy and abroad. He died in Milan in 2015.