Luca Lischetti
Life, style & influence
Luca Lischetti was born in Laveno Mombello in 1950. The reading of Franz Kafka provides an appropriate description of his anguish, that of a world dominated by an enveloping and mysterious power. At 25, he presents his judges, with grotesque appearances, and the “Hans’ Little Theaters,” piles of various figures, screaming and snarling men and women, trapped among deformed bicycle wheels, broken chairs, old phones, useless signs, elements directly drawn from his childhood nightmares.
Later, Lischetti dedicates a series to the circus, works made of figures carved in wood, forming seemingly playful puzzles, which then give life to weightless characters floating in the air, “Merry tightrope walkers” that gradually disintegrate and fade into a monochrome background, this time made of resin.
His works
The cycle “Eulogy of Red” is inspired by the figure of Thomas Becket; it’s as if the artist is confronting his own bare existence, so much so that, at a certain point, he feels the need to insert a wooden sculpture facing the background; in this way, the distinction between Lischetti’s self and the work is abolished.
Other cycles follow, where the protagonist is always an existence in continuous alarm, whether it be floating devils, or rather, always condemned to fall into an indefinite horizon; or individual characters placed in a landscape where branches struck by lightning appear, ghostly figures, or profiles of simple dwellings.
In recent years, Lischetti has returned to the little theaters, updated to a greater compositional ability and enriched with protruding sculptural elements.
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