Lucia Di Luciano

Italy, 1933

Arrived in Rome and attended the Academy of Fine Arts, where she met Giovanni Pizzo. The two were married in 1959. In 1963, together with Francesco Guerrieri and Lia Drei, they founded Gruppo 63, which gave itself a strongly rationalistic imprint in the sphere of kinetic-programmed research. This four-member association was short-lived due to programmatic divergences. As early as 1964, Lucia Di Luciano and Giovanni Pizzo gave birth to Operativo R with Carlo Carchietti, Franco Di Vito and Mario Rulli. The works produced in that period take their starting point from the analysis of visual processes of a gestalt matrix. In Lucia Di Luciano’s works, an effect of overlapping black and white grids often occurs, which gives an evident multidimensionality to the image. There was then a return to colour, with the gradual introduction of primary tones. This is not a betrayal of the original propositions, but a deepening of an investigation into optical perception, which Di Luciano puts into practice, for example, in the series of the Gradients, works rich in imaginative verve combined with scientific rigor. In the recent Minimal and Senza titolo [Untitled] series, Di Luciano frees the sign from the rigorous grid of the 1960s to make room for tracings and gestures of pure colour.

In 2022 she exhibited in the Central Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale. Her works can be found in important museum collections, such as, to name a few: TATE Modern in London, Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, MAMCO in Geneva, VAF-Stiftung in Frankfurt, MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.

Represented by 10 A.M. ART, Milan