Ludovico de Luigi is a contemporary Italian

Italy

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 sculptor and painter

Painting

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 living in Venice

Venice

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Career

De Luigi first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery ‘Il Canale’ in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and other fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner, Luciano Ravagnan, in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, MonteCarlo, Paris and, from 1975, in many German cities.

Alongside the line of Vedutism and entomology, he depicted the threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism of the city. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, due to an oil technique to which the use of the ‘electronic brush’ of the computer is added later.

In the 1980s De Luigi carried out some sculptures, creating enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous quadriga of St. Mark’s. De Luigi’s horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. For the Venice carnival of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in glass, created in the furnaces on Murano.

Exhibitions

1965

• Galleria II Canale, Venezia

1966

• Galleria II Traghetto 2,Venezia

1967

• Drake Gallery, Chicago

1968

• Galleria II Cannocchiale, Milano

1969

• Palazzo Costanzi VII Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, Trieste

1970

• Galleria S. Stefano - Venezia
• Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan Venezia
• Galleria del Sagittario, Milano
• GalleriaTraghetto -Venezia

1971

• Columbia University: Casa Italiana, New York

1973

• Galerie Margot Delfs, Munchen

1974

• La Pagode, Paris Kubus, Hannover One man GalleriaTommaseo, Trieste

1975

• Galleria Quarta Dimensione, Arezzo
• Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan
• Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Koln Foyer des Grossen Hauses der stadt. Buhnen, Dortmund Schulzentrum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein Galerie Hennemann, Bonn Kreissparkasse, Porz (Koln) Heimvolkschochschule, Lambrecht Galerie Hennemann, Bonn

1976

• Palazzo Braschi, Roma
• Galerie Moderne Art, Baldham
• Raquet's Club Gallery, Cuernavaca Galeria´Taj Mahal",Acapulco Galerie Jan de Maere, Bruxelles Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

1978

• Musee du Bastion, Antibes
• Galerie Schmidel, Koln
• Palazzo delle PrigioniVecchie,Venezia

1979

• Galerie Konok, Saint-Etienne
• Museo deArte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
• Museo deArte Contemporaneo, Granada
• La casa de losTiros,Valencia
• il Museo de I´Atarazanas, Barcellona ~ Galerie "89", Barcellona
• Fundacio Joan Miró
• Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

1982

• Galleria Ravagnan,Venezia
• Galerie L´Eglantine, Lausanne

1983

• Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milano
• Galleria d´Arte Braidense, Milano
• Archives Municipals, Marseille
• Hotel de Ville, La Seyne Briancon

1984

• CKO, Oostend
• Padiglione del Parco Massari, Ferrara

1985

• Ca' Vendramin Calergi
  Ca' Vendramin Calergi
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  (S.I.M.A.) Caffe Florian, Venezia:"Scultura in tre tempi"
• Galerie du Vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve

1986

• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas Financial Place,
• Chicago: Monument Main Lobby, 440 South La Salle, Chicago

1987

• Adam's Mark Gallery, Saint Louis
• Venice Design Art Gallery, Venezia
• GalleriaTreviso Artigiana,
• Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zagreb

1988

• Carrefour des Arts "Couvent du Refuge", Marseille
• Galleria Ravagnan, Venezia
• Palazzo delle PrigioniVecchie
• Vedutista oggi di una citta che non c´e" Galerie Francis, Gstaad
• Cortina d´Ampezzo "Ciasa de Ra Regoles"

1989

• Galleria Giraldo, Treviso
• Opera, Belluno
• Galleria Il Traghetto, Venezia

1990

• Terrazza- Cortina d´Ampezzo
• Galleria Traghetto II - Venezia

1994

• Art Fair, Gaunt

1995

• Caffe Quadri "Nuova Quadrigaper la Basilica di S. Marco", Venezia
• Torre Orologio Permanent Show, Venezia

1996

• Galerie Cadrama, Martigny

1997

• Exposition Europa - Skulptur, Wiener Neustadt

1998

• Swisscom Center, Martigny

1999

• "Diamond-Marcus" Equestre monumentale in vetro
• di Murano, Venezia

2002

• Museo d´arte Sant´Apollonia - Venezia
• Presentazione libro dell´artista "Palazzo Ducale" - Venezia

2004

• Esposizione permanete Farnesina - Roma

2005

• Espace Pierre Cardin - Parigi
• Contemporary Art at the Italian Pavilion Expo Aichi - Giappone

2006

• Spectrum Gallery "Impossible Venice" - Londra
• Italian Cultural Institute - Londra
• Schloss Seefeld - Germania
• Galleria Ravagnan - Venezia "Angels & Venice" omaggio a John Berendt

2007

• Venezia Impossibile - Museu Da Agua - Lisbona Portogallo