Luca Piovaccari Biography
Cesena, 1965 Mental and sophisticated artist, Luca Piovaccari, after initial pictorial interests (in oil and pastel he creates landscapes and portraits) has increasingly dedicated himself to drawing and photography, often in large format, on transparent acetates and with monochrome tones. His is an evanescent art but full of visual references and solicitations for interior journeys. His graphic and photographic virtuosity, implemented in the same work without interruption, earned him the interest of critics since the 1990s. A.Zanchetta, M.Paderni, L.Belloni, M.Meneguzzo, L.Beatrice, A.Riva are interested in his work. This is how A.Riva wrote about him in 2000 on the occasion of his exhibition at the Galleria Palazzo del Ridotto in Cesena: "What has always intrigued me in Luca's work is a mixture of nostalgia and coldness (...), the sensation of things, of images, smells and flavors that, as if by strange alchemy, become earth and day and tree and house; that desire to be, therefore, in the heart of things and at the same time outside (...), that being inside and outside the subject, that knowing how to tell or, better yet, hint at through flashes, memories, fragments of a time that we we have all lived and in which we can all recognize ourselves (...) yet also knowing how to analyse, dissect, lucidly arranging the various pieces on a cold surgical plate whose irons are aseptic - yet extremely glamorous -, sheets of acetate which stop them forever the emotional roots, transforming, in fact, the uninterrupted flow of emotions that painting historically brings with it into a single, lucid gaze that is both warm and cold, participatory and analytical, emotional and rational". In 2000 he held a personal exhibition, with Matteo Basilé, at Marella Atte Contemporanea in Milan; in the same year he exhibited in Cesena at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte and at the Galleria Il Vicolo, an exhibition curated by M.Zattini with critical texts by A.Riva and R.Ronchi. In 2006 he held a solo exhibition at the Romberg gallery in Rome, “Solo show Piovaccari, camera con vista Ghibaudo”, curated by I.Bergantini and G.Marziani.
