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Luiso Sturla was born in Chiavari in 1930. He studied at the Nicolò Barabino Art School in Genoa and subsequently at the Faculty of Architecture in Turin. Read the full biography

Luiso Sturla was born in Chiavari in 1930. He studied at the Nicolò Barabino Art School in Genoa and subsequently at the Faculty of Architecture in Turin. In Chiavari he frequented the painters Bartolomeo Sanguineti and Vittorio Ugolini, with them he formed the "Gruppo del Golfo". In 1953 he joined the MAC (Concrete Art Movement) of Milan of which he became the secretary for Liguria until 1957. In 1958 he made a trip to Spain following which he returned with a matured interest in informal art. In 1959 he began his collaboration with the Galleria Numero in Florence. directed by Fiamma Vigo, which led him to exhibit in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 1960 he made his first trip to New York where he stayed for a year. In New York he witnessed the birth of pop art. He painted in a studio on Avenue C in Manhattan and frequented the Cedar Bar in Greenwich Village where he met Michael Goldberg and Gregory Corso. Obsessed by the constant fires in the East Side neighborhood, he painted approximately eighty maps entitled “After the fires - American Maps”. In 1961 he returned to Florence and frequented the exponents of the Florentine Classical Abstractionism group. In 1962 he moved to Milan. In the same year the Olivetti Cultural Center of Ivrea dedicated an important solo exhibition to him presented by Marco Valsecchi and ten years later Olivetti Argentina invited him to exhibit with a solo exhibition at the Wildenstein Foundation in Buenos Aires. In 1981 he was named graphic artist of the year in the Bolaffi Mondadori catalog following the recommendation of Gianfranco Bruno. In 1985 the Municipality of Chiavari dedicated a vast anthology to him with a critical text by Roberto Sanesi. He participated in the National Art Biennial at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan in 1984, 1987 and 1994. In 1995 the La Maddalena Art Gallery in Genoa presented the first thirty-four unpublished works on paper executed in New York. In 1997 he participated in the historical exhibition “Figures of painting 1956-1968” at Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano Veneto. In May 1999 he participated in the "MAC Espace - Concrete Art in Italy and France 1948-1958" exhibition in Rome. He subsequently exhibited in prestigious galleries in Italy and Switzerland.