LAB | LUCA GRECHI: DETTAGLI PLANETARI
On Saturday 14 December, at the Planetarium of the Museum of Roman Civilisation and in collaboration with Romadiffusa, Luca Grechi and IUNO held the workshop Dettagli Planetari.
Starting from the creation of silhouettes inspired by the artist’s characteristic vegetal shapes, each participant had the opportunity to create their own ‘botanical atlas’ with pencils and coloured paper, a cartography of familiar and unfamiliar, real and fantastic green species.
Together, the images formed an ideal forest, a series of interstellar landscapes inhabited by creatures and plants produced and nurtured by children’s imagination.
Luca Grechi was born in 1985 in Grosseto and lives and works in Rome. In relation to his becoming, the balances and thoughts that settle on the canvas create a timeless pause that does not define but presents an anticipation. These infinite possibilities manifest in his painting through a continuous contrast of silence and noise, in search of coexistence.
Among the most recent solo exhibitions: Manca sempre quello che sarà (La Nuova Pesa, 2024, Rome) – Ci sono occhi, dei giorni (Gallerie Riunite, 2023, Naples) – Il nervo (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2023, Rome) – Open (Galleria La Linea, 2022, Montalcino) – Laggiù è qui (Galleria Davide Paludetto, 2021, Turin) – Mi frulla in testa un’isola (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2021, Rome) – Apparire (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2019, Rome) – C’è una volta (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2017, Rome) – In-Finito (Galleria La Linea, 2016, Montalcino) – Un sasso sul mare #2 (Sala Santa Rita, 2016, Rome).
Among the most recent group exhibitions: L’Oro Blu (Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, 2023/24, Pergola) – Essenziale (Fondazione Amleto Bertoni, 2023, Saluzzo) – Questo adesso (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2022, Rome) – Camera Tripla (LABS Contemporary Art, Bologna, 2022) – Ante Operam (Pianobi, Palazzo Marescalchi Belli, Rome, 2022) – Materia Nova (GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, 2021-22) – Carta coreana, Hanji (Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, 2021-22) – La linea retta non appartiene a Dio (Contemporary Cluster, 2021) – La Comunità inoperosa (Palazzo Ducale, Tagliacozzo, 2021) – Due quadri e un tavolo (Galleria Richter Fine Art, Rome, 2020) – Futuro Primitivo (Palazzo Storico Comunale di Montalcino, 2019) – Sottobosco (Muzeul National de Arta, Cluj-Napoca, 2018) – It Was Not Me (Wonder-Liebert, 2018, Paris) – Forever Never Comes (Museo Archeologico della Maremma, 2017, Grosseto) – Non amo che le rose che non colsi (Galleria Richter Fine Art, 2016, Rome) – Asyndeton (Castello di Rivara, 2016, Rivara, TO) – L’Uomo, Il Suono, La Natura (Terravecchia, 2016, Campania) – I Materiali della pittura (Il Frantoio, 2016, Capalbio) – Iconologia Onirica (Galleria La Linea, 2015, Montalcino) – The Grass Grows (Basel, 2014). In 2016, he exhibited at Lissone's MAC on the occasion of the Premio Lissone.