Pino De Luca
Biographical summary
Born in Monteroni di Lecce in 1939, Pino De Luca lives and works in Genoa.
He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) in Rome and studying with Franco Gentilini and Mino Maccari. He studied different artistic techniques and the music. In 1961, he met Leonardo Sinisgalli, Bruno Munari and others. In Rome, Pino De Luca worked together with some architects in planning and creating paintings with different materials, stained glass windows and plastically artworks. In 1963 to him he was awarded the “Fasola” prize by the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1965 he started teaches at the Liceo Artistico (High School of Arts) in Genoa first and winner concourse at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome afterwards. He has been teaching until 2000.
Around the mid-sixties, after with produced figurative works, Pino De Luca work
on his first not-objectivi paintings. Oriented towards the study of the events of Constructivism and international Concretism, he is to interested in the work of Bruno Munari, Gianni Colombo, Max Bill and the experiences of art Kinetic and Programmed art movements. Later, his artistic career develop geometric non-iconic works focused at first on interfering squares and rhombuses, then on linear patterns, with intense vibration effects. Starting from the eighties, his works develop towards morphological articulation and chromatic of by sign sequences. The color blocks layout is the result of unstable yet structured and dynamic equilibrium. Carlo Belloli has defined him “weaver of lights that produce interference in invented colour”.
It is a mental voyage that starts over and over, with a great deal of curiosity and raison d'étre, through a simple play on form and colour, and for a sort of interior
need, with the aim of sharing with other people also to the sense by pleasure and joy from the existence of my works.
Since 1972 he to take part in some exhibitions at the La Polena Gallery in Genoa and since1973 in Brescia, Pino De Luca joined the Gruppo Sincron whom to cooperate Bruno Munari cooperated with, working at the namesake art gallery run by Armando Nizzi. In 1974 he founded the Centro Ricerche Estetiche ( Aesthetics Research Centre) “La Meridiana” in Genoa together with Borella, Pizzo Greco, Baldi, Stirone and others.
In 1985 he was one of the signers of the Manifesto della Nuova Visualità 1985 (New Vision Manifesto 1985), conceived by Carlo Belloli in Milan, promoted and spread by Anna Canali through exhibitions at the Arte Struktura gallery in Milan and other venues.
In 1991 Riccardo Barletta presented Pino De Luca's work “Incontro con il colore” (“Meeting with colour”) at the Museo del Palazzo della Permanente in Milan. In 1996 he was one of the winners at the 1° Premio Trevi Flash Art Museum.
Since 1970 he has been organizing personal exhibitions and to take part joining important national and international collective exhibitions. His works can be found in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
Pino De Luca's works received critical attention by
Riccardo Barletta, Carlo Belloli, Cristina Belloni, Germano Beringheli, Heidi Bierwisch, Armando Brignolo, Gianfranco Bruno, Anna Canali, Luigi Carluccio, Toti Carpentieri, Raffaella Caruso, Enzo Cirone, Viana Conti, Miriam Cristaldi, Enrico M. Davoli, Floriano De Santi, Giorgio Di Genova, M. Faussone Boido, Giuliana Ferrari,
Giacomo Ferrera, Bill D. Finney, Carlo Franza, Anna Gasperini, Carlo Giacomozzi,
Giorgio Kaisserlian, Antje Lechleiter, Marco Lorandi, M. Daniela Lunghi, Corrado Maltese, Giuseppe Marasco, Pietro Marino, Bruno Munari, Armando Nizzi, Aquiles Ortiz, Achille Pace, Romano Peli, Rosario Pinto, Dan Pritchett, Stefania Provinciali, Giuseppe Quarta, Fiorenzo Romita, Mario Stefani, Gianni Stirone, Bianca Tosatti, Tiziana Tricarico, Francesco Vincitorio, Rodolfo Vitone and others.
The light is equivalent to life and life is rhytm, movement, colour, play, space, sign, joy, transformation continues, but also anxiety, tension, conflict and thousand other things.
The sense of my configurations and of my signs is intimately linked to these meanings, with interest for sensitive experiences and the relations perceivable by everyday reality, complicated and confusing. We must then add my predilection for a geometric vision of form, for the combinatorial aspects, for series, the time, the flows, the numerical proportions, the colours of the solar spectrum and their effects changeable.
It is a work that develops in constant to experimental expressive research, with a
approach to logical processes, concepts and concrete experiences, with the techniques and language of painting. They are mental images, geometric abstractions, sets of signs structured and deconstructed numerically, designed and articulated in paths multi-scansion.
Signs fluctuating that interact in the game of the expression of rhythms and of the
spaces, in the ever-changing colours, in a dialectic sequence.