LANDSCAPES
LUCA LUPI- Landscapes
Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s first exhibition with Luca Lupi.
Aldo Sestini wrote in his 1963 work Il Paesaggio (The Landscape) that the Italian “landscape acquires higher interest and offers more spiritual pleasure when it is observed by those who are able to recognize the compositional elements, the peculiar variety and the natural and human factors that contributed to form it.” Landscapes brings together a selection of works from an ongoing series by Italian photographer Luca Lupi, who rises to Sestini’s challenge with his interrogation of the evolving relation between ancient and modern, and organic and inorganic forces in defining contemporary Italian identity and the regional landscapes that so profoundly shape it.
In capturing the geological and architectural diversity of the bel paese, Lupi invites a modular reading of the Italian coastline, the compositional consistency of his images permitting a continuous and endlessly reconfigurable sequence where built and natural elements are flattened and reduced to their formal properties. Toying with the viewers’ sense of scale, a sublime and boundless sky nearly consumes each frame, transforming the unique details of each landscape into exquisite ornaments; a majestic Tuscan terrace mirrors a strip of narrow white beach, while the cathedrals and cemeteries of ancient Venice appear not grand and imposing but as delicately hewn as tiny watercolors.
Born in Pontedara, Pisa in 1970, award-winning Italian photographer Luca Lupi currently lives and works in Fucecchio, Florence. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. He recently won the Photomed Festival 2017 for his Landscapes series, and has had the work presented in solo exhibitions including Landscapes, Emon Photo Gallery, Tokyo (2016); Still, Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea, Sarzana (SP, 2016); Infinito Presente, Sincresis Arte, Empoli (FI, 2015); Spazi, Museo di Fucecchio, Florence (2014); Landscapes, Anne Clergue Galerie, Arles, France (2014); Viewpoint, Le Murate, Florence (2011).
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BIOGRAPHY
Luca Lupi (Pontedera, Pisa 1970)
Lives and works in Fucecchio, Florence, Italy.
EXHIBITION
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
ARTEFIERA Bologna, Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea
2018
Dal vero, Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea, Sarzana (SP). Text Pietro Gaglianò
Finis Terrae, Anne Clergue Galerie, Arles, France
Italian Landscape, Consulate General of Italy in New York, New York
Landscape, Università di Firenze – Dipartimento di Architettura, Florence
2017
Finis Terrae, Passaggi Arte Contemporanea, Pisa. Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
2016
Landscapes, Emon Photo Gallery, Tokyo
Still, Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea, Sarzana (SP). Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
2015
Infinito Presente | Sincresis Arte, Empoli, Florence. Curated by Alessandra Scappini
2014
Spazi, Museo di Fucecchio, Florence. Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
Landscapes | Anne Clergue Galerie, Arles, France
Sit on it, Inner room | Siena, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Ballata per luce sola, PIA, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Florence. Curated by Pietro Gaglianò
The Twilight Zone, Burning Giraffe Art Gallery, Torino. Curated by Alessandra Ioalè
2017
Fotonica | Biennale di Fotografica, Follonica (GR) Italy
2016
Paesaggi | Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano
“Il mare come Caselli non lo fa nessuno”, Cardelli e Fontana Opificio Vaccari, S. Stefano Magra (SP)
2015
Monotype // For Design Week 2015 | Twenty 14 Contemporary – Milan
The Wall (archives)#10 | Assab One, Milan
2014
The Wall (archives)#9 / home | Sponge ArteContemporanea, Pergola (PU) Italy. Curated by Pietro Gaglianò
Pae-Saggio | Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy. Curated by Carles Marco
RATP invite | Exhibition in 12 stations of the Paris Metro
2013
The Wall (archives) #8 – beyond the railway. B.go Loreto/SP, Cremona Italy. Curated by Pietro Gagliano
2011
Sei Gradi di Separazione | Villa Pacchiani Santa Croce sull’Arno, Pisa Italy. Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
Viewpoint | Le Murate, Florece Italy. Curated by Teresa Zurzolo
AWARDS
2017
Winner of the 7th edition of the Photomed Festival
2016
“Landscapes” winner of the Italy in a frame 2016. Architettura e Paesaggio – Triennale di Milano.
2015
COMBAT Prize 2015, Museo Civico G. Fattori (Villa Mimbelli), Livorno
Arte Laguna Prize 2015 – Arsenale di Venezia
B.I.P.A. (Barcelona International Photography Awards)
2014
LensCulture emerging talents 2014 – Winner
CIRCULATION(S) Festival de la June Photographie Europeenne, Centquatre – Paris. Curated by Marion Hislen
(IPA) International Photography Awards
FAIR
2019
ARTEFIERA Bologna, solo show, Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea
2018
FOTOFEVER, solo show, Passaggi arte contemporanea| Carousel du Louvre, Paris
ArtVerona, Cardelli & Fontana arte contemporanea
MIA PHOTO FAIR 2018, The Mall, Milano, Galleria Passaggi Arte Contemporanea
2017
ArteFiera, Bologna, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea
Lucca Art Fair, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea
ArtVerona, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea;
Wopart – Lugano, Sincresis Arte
2016
ArtVerona, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana artecontemporanea – Galleria Passaggi Arte Contemporanea
2015
Fotofever, Sincresis Arte, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
ArtVerona, Sincresis Arte
2014
ArtVerona, Sincresis Arte
Jun 4 - Jul 12, 2019