Ludovico De Luigi (born 11 November 1933) is a contemporary

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and

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born and living in

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, Italy.

Career

De Luigi's first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery "Il Canale" in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner Luciano Ravagnan in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, Monte Carlo, Paris and, beginning in 1975, in many German cities. Alongside works with themes of Vedutism and

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, he depicted threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, using an oil technique; the "electronic brush" of the computer is used later. In the 1980s De Luigi produced sculptures, including enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous Triumphal Quadriga of

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. De Luigi's horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. As of 2004, two of the horses were installed in the lobby of the Adam's Mark hotel in Saint Louis. For the Venice

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of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in

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Exhibitions

1965 * Galleria II Canale, Venezia 1966 * Galleria II Traghetto 2,Venezia 1967 * Drake Gallery, Chicago 1968 * Galleria II Cannocchiale, Milano 1969 * Palazzo Costanzi VII° Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, Trieste 1970 * Galleria S. Stefano, Venezia * Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia * Galleria del Sagittario, Milano * GalleriaTraghetto, Venezia 1971 * Columbia University: Casa Italiana, New York 1973 * Galerie Margot Delfs, Munich 1974 * La Pagode, Paris * Kubus, Hannover * One man GalleriaTommaseo, Trieste 1975 * Galleria Quarta Dimensione, Arezzo *Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia *Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne *Foyer des Grossen Hauses der Städt. Bühnen, Dortmund *Schulzentrum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein *Galerie Hennemann, Bonn *Kreissparkasse, Porz (Cologne) *Heimvolkshochschule, Lambrecht *Galerie Hennemann, Bonn *Galerie Hennemann, Bonn 1976 * Palazzo Braschi, Roma * Galerie Moderne Art, Baldham * Galerie Anastasia, Bensberg-Refrath * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munich * Kunstverein, Ingolstadt * Gartensaal des Kursaalgebaudes, Bad Mergentheim * Foyer des Stadttheaters, Münster * Adebakademia, Mannheim * Galerie Augustinum, Heidelberg * Galerie Augustinum, Stuttgart * Atelier für Kunstwissen, Baden-Baden 1978 * Musee du Bastion, Antibes * Galerie Schmidel, Cologne * Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia 1979 * Galerie Konok, Saint-Etienne * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Granada * La casa de los Toros, Valencia 1980 * Museo de l’Atarazanas, Barcelona * Galerie "89", Barcelona * Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona * Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 1982 * Galleria Ravagnan, Venezia * Galerie L´Eglantine, Lausanne 1983 * Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan * Galleria d´Arte Braidense, Milan * Archives Municipals, Marseille * Hotel de Ville, La Seyne Briancon 1984 * CKO, Oostend * Padiglione del Parco Massari, Ferrara 1985 * Ca' Vendramin Calergi (S.I.M.A.), Venezia * "Scultura in tre tempi", Caffe Florian, Venezia * Galerie du Vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve 1986 * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas * Financial Place, Chicago * Monument Main Lobby, 440 South La Salle, Chicago 1987 * Adam's Mark Gallery, Saint Louis * Venice Design Art Gallery, Venezia * GalleriaTreviso Artigiana * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zagreb 1988 * Carrefour des Arts "Couvent du Refuge", Marseille * Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia * "Ai Padovani", Carnevale dei Pittori, Venezia * Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia * Galerie Francis, Gstaad * "Ciasa de Ra Regoles", Cortina d’Ampezzo 1989 * Banca Popolare di Milano, Bergamo * Galleria Giraldo, Treviso * Galleria Opera, Belluno * Galleria Il Traghetto, Venezia * Premio Colonnette, Venezia * Club Malvasia Vecchia, Venezia * Studio Paolo Barozzi, Venezia 1990 * La Terrazza Cortina d'Ampezzo * Galleria Traghetto II, Venezia 1994 * Art Fair, Gaunt * Performance "Gondola Anfibia Carnevale di Venezia", Venezia 1995 * Caffe Quadri "Nuova Quadrigaper la Basilica di S. Marco", Venezia * Torre Orologio Permanent Show, Venezia 1996 * Galerie Cadrama, Martigny * Tonino Gallery, Campione d’Italia 1997 * Exposition Europa, Skulptur, Wiener Neustadt 1998 * Swisscom Center, Martigny 1999 * "Diamond-Marcus" Equestre monumentale in vetro di Murano, Venezia 2002 * Museo d´Arte Sant´Apollonia, Venezia * Presentazione libro dell´artista "Palazzo Ducale", Venezia 2004 * Esposizione permanete Farnesina, Roma 2005 * Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris * Contemporary Art at the Italian Pavilion Expo Aichi, Giappone 2006 * Spectrum Gallery "Impossible Venice", London * Italian Cultural Institute, London * Schloss Seefeld, Germany * Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia 2007 * Venezia Impossibile, Museu Da Agua, Lisbon 2013 * Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia

References

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