Luca Pancrazzi Biography
Luca Pancrazzi (1961 - ) was born in Figline Valdarno (Florence) in 1961. He lives and works between Milan and Filandia. After his high school and academic studies in Florence, in the second half of the eighties he traveled to the United States, where he worked at the Jo Watanabe studio creating graphics and wall drawings by Sol Lewitt and then to Rome in Alighiero Boetti's studio. Since the 1990s he has been the author of research based on the analysis of the artistic medium, its ramifications, the creative possibilities of error and the composite use of techniques and materials. Metropolitan space and landscape, in their continuity with the anthropic gaze that defines them, are the themes treated most assiduously. He expresses himself through painting, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation, sculpture, shared actions with other artists and editorial projects. Among the projects in which he is one of the founders we remember: Importé d'Italie (1982), ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (1993), De-ABC (2002), since 2010 Madeinfilandia and since 2015 Spazio COSMO in Milan. He began to show in the second half of the eighties and since 1996 he was invited to participate in a series of international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1997), the New Delhi Triennale (1997), Biennal of Cetinje (1997), Triennale of Vilnius (2000), Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion (1998), Biennal of Valencia (2001), Moscow Biennal of Contemporary Art (2007), Quadrennial of Rome (2008). Some of the numerous public spaces that have presented his work: PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1999), Galleria Civica di Modena (1999), Museo Marino Marini (2000), Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (2002), Zentrum Fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (2003), PAC (2004), MAN (2004), MART Trento e Rovereto (2005), MAMbo (2006), Macro (2007), Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (2007).
