About LUCA ARTIOLI

I started working in design studios and fashion brands as a graphic designer and illustrator. I work with creativity and have been freelance for about 30 years. I have always cultivated a more purely artistic side, also due to a spirit of research, which has defined itself over time with collage. Collage is a technique that has won me over more and more and I can say that my way of using this technique is certainly influenced by the first approach I had with impressionist painting. The shape, composed of torn paper, images and evocative materials, becomes the vehicle for the narration of a thought or a feeling. The elements that I insert internally often represent aspects linked to an inner growth and discovery. The use of sacred images that I often use, belonging to various cultures, are not so much a religious and cultural symbol in particular, but more than anything the representation of a divine presence in all expressions of nature, a common matrix that binds all beings.

A possible key to reading my work is therefore that of observation with a sort of zoom from macro to micro and back, discovering the internal details that are the root of the form. An invitation to look inside ourselves to discover the origin of things. Mine are collages on board, I use various types of paper, some of these treated with acrylic paint. Mine is a constant search to collect images, textures and patterns that I catalogue, these are the vocabulary of my work that I rediscover every time I create a new work.