Luca Pozzi (

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, 31 January, 1983) is an Italian artist. Inspired by the worlds of art, physics, multi-messenger cosmology and computer science, after graduating with a degree in painting at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

and specializing in computer graphics and systems, he collaborates with visionary scientific communities, including the

Loop Quantum Gravity Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a theory of quantum gravity that incorporates matter of the Standard Model into the framework established for the intrinsic quantum gravity case. It is an attempt to develop a quantum theory of gravity based direc ...

(PI), the

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(CERN) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (

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). Studying

quantum gravity Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics. It deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the v ...

, entanglement,

time travel Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a device known a ...

cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo ...

, and

particle physics Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of Elementary particle, fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the s ...

, his

holistic Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts. Julian Tudor Hart (2010''The Political Economy of Health Care''pp.106, 258 The aphorism "The whole is greater than t ...

approach converts the theoretical research in a series of hybrid installations characterized by magnetized sculptures, levitating objects, light drawings and a performative use of photography based on a strange feeling of frozen time and multidimensionality. His work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy and abroad, and his pieces are part of public and private collections, including the MART of Rovereto, the

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of Bologna, the MEF of Turin, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “LA FARNESINA” and the Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis of New York. He is known for his photographic series “Supersymmetric Partners”, that shows real jumps in front of the

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paintings by

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana (Veronese), The Wedding ...

, and for the use of electromagnetic levitation technologies in futuristic installations such as the “Schröedinger’s cat through Piero Della Francesca influence" (

Museo Marino Marini Marino Marini (1901–1980) was one of the most important Italian artists of the twentieth century, especially as a sculptor. He was born in Pistoia, but he studied art in Florence, before moving to Monza as a teacher and finally arriving at th ...

, 2010), the “9 Churches 9 Columns” (

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, 2011) and “The Star Platform” (Marrakech Biennale, 2012). In 2013, he presented the "ORACLE" device to draw with light by remotely during DLD - Digital Life Design, at

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, in Munich; In 2015 he published “The Messengers of Gravity” monograph at Museo Ettore Fico, in Turin, including interviews and texts by

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

, Gianluigi Ricuperati,

Ute Meta Bauer Ute Meta Bauer (born 1958). She is an international curator, professor of contemporary art and the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore. Early life and education Bauer was born in 1958 in Stuttgart, Germany. She studie ...

Carlo Rovelli Carlo Rovelli (born 3 May 1956) is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Marseille in France, a Disti ...

and Sabrina Tarasoff. In 2017 he activated the cross-disciplinary “Blazing Quasi-Stellar Object” project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (

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, Geneva) as the third chapter of The Internet Saga curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and he attended “

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” as part of the “Eternal Internet Brotherhood community” (Kassel). In 2018 he creates "The Grandfather Platform" an immersive installation in direct connection with fresco cycle "History of the foundation of Rome" depicted by the

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Brothers in 1590, at Palazzo Magnani. In 2019 he had a lecture performance on the "Art in the era of Quantum Gravity and Multi-Messenger Cosmology" at

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Roma. In 2009 he won the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art at the Centre International d’accueil et d’échanges de Récollets in Paris and was artist in residence at PROGRAM (Initiative for Art + Architecture collaborations) in Berlin and in 2011 at Mazama, Winthrop (WA), in the United States. He has been honored with the Ettore Fico Award (Turin, 2012), Premio Icona (Verona, 2010) and the Premio Internazionale Scultura Piemonte in 2006.Premio Internzionale Scultura Piemonte
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