LUCA CONCA
GRAVEDONA (COMO), Italy
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MORBEGNO
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Works by LUCA CONCA
Luca Conca is a painter, and not because of what he paints but because of how he paints it. The subject is a claim. Whether portraits, seas or rivers, what goes on stage is always and only painting. His is a " painting of touch."
But to understand the painting one must detach oneself from the subject and concentrate on the touch, approaching the painting until one cannot distinguish its content.
He attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in Painting in 1998.
In 2004 he held his first solo exhibition at Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan, with a text by Alessandro Riva in the catalog.
In 2007 his exhibition Doppio Sguardo, curated by Rino Bertini, was held in Sondrio at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery in Palazzo Sertoli. The theme was duality in the sense of double portrait, double point of view and repetition of the same subject. The starting point were five portraits of twins, including the painter and his twin brother. The text in the catalog was written by Marco Vallora and Armando Massarenti.
In 2008 Chiara Batti of La Repubblica invited Luca to the San Fedele Arte Prize in Milan. That same year, Credito Valtellinese commissioned him to paint two large canvases, four meters high, to be permanently displayed in their Morbegno branch.
In 2010, Fernando Gianesini invited him to collaborate on an evolving project around the natural landscape of Valmalenco, in a dialogue with Alfredo Corti's photographs. The result was the solo exhibition The White Shadow of the Mountain.
Luca participated in the 58th edition of the Michetti Prize in Villafranca al Mare, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga.
In 2011 Luca was invited to present in the regional section of the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale, held in the Lombardy pavilion at Palazzo Te in Mantua.
In 2015 he published Vuoti, a limited edition booklet of 25 copies, for Edizioni Pulcinoelefante by Alberto Casiraghi, with an aphorism by Elisabetta Sem and 25 original works.
In the same year he held a solo exhibition, In su la cima, at the Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Federico Rui in Milan, curated by Federico Rui himself.
Luca Conca lives and works in Morbegno (Sondrio).