Luca Brandi

Luca Brandi was born in Florence in 1961. From the age of ten he helped the master Romolo Prati, in Florence, in performing great religious representations on panels for the sacristies of some churches; he learns the frame on the panel and the layering of the painting in the preparation of the funds for the great works.

From 1983 he attended the abstract painter Paolo Galletti, from him he learned the theories on the decomposition of form through geometric painting and color. In 1985 he held his first solo exhibition at the Dada gallery in the province of Florence. Various personal and group shows follow in Florence at the Ken’s Art Gallery.

From 1990 to 2000, he lived years of introspective research, visiting museums and contemporary art galleries in the United States, England, France, Germany, studying the great classical masters of Abstract and Minimalist Expressionism, up to 2000, the year in which he began to work on new works based on the stratification of metallic colors, which is still the basis of his work.

In 2007 his first catalogue was published with an important collection of works from 2000, curated by Giuliano Serafini.

He takes part in solo shows with the Immaginaria gallery in Florence, during the Art Fairs of Vigo (Spain), Istanbul and Karlsruhe (Germany). In December 2008 he was present in a group show in Berlin. In May 2009 it was the turn of his solo show in Wiesbaden at the Galerie Nero, a work is part of the museum collection of the host city. In November 2010 he continues with solo shows in Florence and Berlin. In the same year he donated some works to the Florentine Oncology Center. From 2011 to today his personal exhibitions have been set up at Palazzo Rosso in Genoa, at the Immaginaria gallery in Florence and at the ZetaEffe Gallery. In 2018 the exhibition Ne la Pittura hold the field – Three Canticles in Abstract at the Ancient Franciscan Cloisters of Ravenna in collaboration with the Accademia della Crusca. In 2019 the ZetaEffe Gallery in Florence dedicated a personal exhibition to the artist.

His works are present in private and public collections, in Italy and abroad.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019 Futura Art Gallery, sculpture collective Less

2018 collettiva Spazio Dinamico Arte, Firenze

2018 collettiva Spazio Dinamico Arte, Pietrasanta

2018 Antichi chiostri Francescani, Ravenna

2017 Galleria ZetaEffe, Firenze

2016 Galleria Fienilarte, Bologna

2016 Galleria ZetaEffe, Firenze

2015 Galleria Fienilarte, Pietrasanta-Lucca

2013 Galleria Immaginaria, Firenze

2013 Galerie Schiller Heidelberg, Germany