Luca Maria Patella

LUCA MARIA PATELLA (Rome, 1934)
"Rosetta - ciriola".
Mixed media on canvas glued to táblex.
Signed.
Attached to the back label of the Belgian gallery De Vuyst.
Measurements: 50 x 70 cm.

Luca Maria Patella has navigated the currents of various media and has left an indelible mark in conceptual art, photography, film and sculpture, becoming a pioneer of multimedia art. His work is a kaleidoscope of artistic expressions: from painting to sculpture, from installation to cinema, from photography to graphics, Luca Maria Patella has never limited himself to a single medium. One of his most innovative contributions has been the use of verbal language in all its expressive possibilities, sometimes broken down into phonemes, showing a complexity of meanings that is reflected in his work. Since the 1960s, Luca Maria Patella anticipated conceptual trends that would become a point of reference for later generations. He explored the fields of Land Art, Behaviorism and Conceptualism, while maintaining total artistic autonomy, making him unclassifiable. The artist has participated in numerous exhibitions and biennials, including six editions of the Venice Biennale and the XII Quadriennale di Roma in 1992. Among the most significant exhibitions are Reis dorheen L. Patella 1976-1965 in Antwerp, Il paese della creatività in Montepulciano, and Mysterium Coniunctionis in Brussels. His talent has been recognized internationally, winning the Premio Pascali in 1976, and the Grinzane Cavour, Feronia e Vincenzo Cardarelli in 2002 for his poetry. The artist's last years were dedicated to the production of full-length video films, structural poems, a novel and new installations related to his proposal Arte & Non Arte. He was also commissioned to create Magritte's large Fontaine Physiognomique in Brussels in 2002.