"Cosa Viva", Painting as Vision: in Turin, Andrea Lucchesi’s Exhibition at A PICK GALLERY
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- Mar 28
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On Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30 PM, A PICK GALLERY in Turin opens Cosa Viva, a solo exhibition by Andrea Lucchesi (Florence, 1981), curated by Emanuela Romano.
The exhibition presents a new body of work built around a narrative: the inner and outer journey of a young woman who, while taking a bath, glimpses a forest beyond the window. From this moment, a visual story unfolds through the discovery of the landscape, its details, and the events that take shape within it. Yet this tale is merely a pretext—what truly captivates Lucchesi is painting itself, as a living substance capable of shaping light, shadow, figures, situations, and emotions.
Lucchesi's painting is an obsession, an expressive urgency marked by a constant tension between figuration and abstraction. His use of light and color echoes classical painting traditions, while the freedom of his gestures and the dissolution of form lend the works an almost dreamlike quality. Moving between large canvases and smaller compositions, the artist explores the boundary between the visible and the imagined, between the perceived world and inner vision.
Lucchesi's painting is an obsession, an expressive urgency marked by a constant tension between figuration and abstraction. His use of light and color echoes classical painting traditions, while the freedom of his gestures and the dissolution of form lend the works an almost dreamlike quality. Moving between large canvases and smaller compositions, the artist explores the boundary between the visible and the imagined, between the perceived world and inner vision.
His landscapes are not simple representations, but emotional impressions emerging from the pictorial matter. Faces and details resemble magnified fragments of other scenes, as if the viewer could zoom into the image and delve deeper into the world the artist has created. Figures emerge from darkness, suspended in evocative atmospheres, inviting the viewer to look beyond, to search for hidden meanings, and to imagine what remains unsaid.
Cosa Viva speaks of painting as a primary language—an essential need. A visual narrative without a clear beginning or end, it finds its vital core in painting it self.
The exhibition will remain open until May 3, 2025.
COSA VIVA
Andrea Lucchesi
Curated by Emanuela Romano
Opening: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 6:30 PM
Exhibition dates: April 1 – May 3, 2025
Venue: A PICK GALLERY, Via Bernardino Galliari 15/C, Turin
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