Art

Luca Giovagnoli was born in Rimini in 1963, where he still lives and works.
After completing his studies, his first encounter with art was through graphic design, creating paintings for advertising campaigns for major brands such as Peugeot, Agfa, and Citizen.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Milan, where he immediately began collaborating with galleries and curators.

It is evident that there is a plea in Giovagnoli’s figures.
As if they did not want to be lost.
As if these human figures — always human figures —
did not want to fade into oblivion.
As if they refused to resign themselves to being definitively in another place, in another fading, in a definitive past compared to the chaotic and vibrant perception of the present.
Human figures who are here, in the painting, asking, dissimulating, sometimes with morbid eroticism, to still exist.
They show all their time. They flaunt it without shame.
They come towards us with all their belonging to the past: the gestures, the clothes, the imprisonment in a fading of colors that distances and yet preserves.
They belong to that past which in the memory of each becomes farther than it really is. More lost. More in need of being continually held.
Held back. From falling where oblivion could win. And with that strange victory of no longer being anything. That victory without victors. The worst.
[…] Davide Rondoni