Luca Pignatelli

Luca Pignatelli was born in Milan in 1962; artistic inspirations have been part of his life since early childhood, thanks to his father Ercole, painter and sculptor. The architecture studies completed at the Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano will be a further, fundamental element of his artistic research. The first solo exhibition was held in 1987, and immediately marks the very close relationship with architecture and the history of art; the relationship with art galleries will always be close and frequent, and over the years many other personal and collective exhibitions will follow one another.
As mentioned, the study of architecture is probably the strongest suggestion in Pignatelli's art. For the artist, the concept of sedimentary growth of history will become the pivot of a research on memory and time: Pignatelli's art becomes above all historical research and reflection, where urban views become a fixed - and constantly sought after – stage of human vicissitudes. The architectures that Pignatelli encounters interpenetrate and overlap on the canvas, with the presence of elements from different eras placed side by side as suggestions and without artificial hierarchies. In this way, his works mix images that are part of a collective and recognizable memory, classic icons with a very strong suggestion of infinity.
A fundamental element in Pignatelli's artistic work is his choice of painting surfaces, which are already pictorial in themselves: the artist almost always works on salvaged and anomalous supports, such as wood, iron, assembled paper and large hemp sheets.

Submitted by Bernabò Home Gallery