Cephalide III, Circa 2010

Angelo Luccia  

Angelo LUCCIA was born in Florence in August 1952 by the Arno, not far from the current opera house, his career remains a mystery. In his spare work, one can find a marked taste for that Florentine severity, the one that strikes when passing in front of the Uffizi and almost catching the gaze of Lorenzo il magnifico by chance. He speaks little of his work and if he does, he asks you to listen to the lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah: "Jerusalem convertere ad dominum Deum tuum", the vertigo of the harmonics of the assassin prince Gesualdo, the amorous letter of the seventh book of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals, or even the quartets of Arnold Schoenberg or Bela Bartok. He says rigor, he says nonchalance, Tuscan light.

Relativity, speed of light, "reviens soulamite", "nigra sunt sed formosa", gamma bursts, magnitudes, collapses, black holes, globular clusters, Hubbel's constant, serenade for wind instruments K 361.

Losses, writings, the collages are a very complex succession of impressions, then tears; an image is often split in two and then recomposed, metaphor for the impossibility of being.

1977 - Photography School in Rome
1980 - First encounter with engraving at the Venice Engraving Academy.
1981 - First exhibition at the Signo Grafico Venice gallery
1982 to 1992 - Worked as a photographer in Bologna
1992 - Settled in Florence
1997 - Creation of a series of engravings at the Bucciali workshops
2000 - 25 editions of engravings released from the Bucciali workshops presses