Artist Luigi Presicce

Luigi Presicce

Porto Cesareo, Lecce, 1976. Based in Firenze

Trained in the field of painting, for years he synthesised the results of his studies with the language of performance, staging tableaux vivants of a metaphysical and surreal nature, with echoes coming from popular iconography, from collective and personal memories, rich in allegories and symbolic allusions to esotericism, religion, traditions and ancient beliefs of his homeland. Rituals, stratifications, references to the history of art, to personalities and to events in recent history have marked Presicce's entire research, in which the intense symbolic force of the images and the constructive layout have always declared his pictorial matrix.
In recent years, he has actively returned to painting as a medium with which to investigate the world and bring it back to legibility. Of painting, Presicce says: "Painting has always been an inexhaustible resource of discovery for me and perhaps one of the very few ways I have had to get closer to the human being.
With his refined dandy-shaman look, honoured over the years with prizes and awards, Luigi Presicce has rightfully earned a prominent place on the contemporary art scene.