Biography
The curiosity and will to travel pushes Luca Di Maggio to travel. From New York City, Tel Aviv and then thanks to a scholarship scholarship to attend some courses at SMFA, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
As a nomad hungry for new discoveries, Luca has improved and refined his artistic language. He connects cities where he lived with hypothetical places where to move without forgetting his almost obsessive need to exist and be in touch with nature.
His painting results from the connectivity of multiple lines, as expressive strokes take form to create the subjects of his paintings that materialize on paper, patient or aggressive, depending on his mood. Faces, heads, an imprecise reflection on a mirror that externalizes his being, as self portraits - the interior part is the essence of the soul, experimenting to find the defined mark of its work is the fundamental technique. His colors are: royal blue, gold yellow, red and derivatives, black and neon colors.
As the diaries of his paintings tell of him, - If you don't know yourself you live sleeping. This self - unawareness is a cause of confusion and lethargy. Often his characters are portrayed riding a bicycle, which represents freedom for Luca, but also struggle, just like life. You can live in freedom once awakened, but sooner or later, you will feel the pain of the struggle.
Through his experiments, Luca mixes his love for street art with classical art that had dazzled and lured him toward painting…
Like the founders of the Secession movement, he unleashes his finished art work, he designs, he paints, he artistically expresses himself, with a holistic view of the arts, with his propensity to recover tradition while adding the spice of his own contemporary socio-cultural vision.
Luca Di Maggio, in search of an equilibrium.
