Ludovico de Luigi

Ludovico De Luigi (born 11 November 1933) is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter born and living in Venice, Italy.

Career De Luigi's first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery "Il Canale" in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner Luciano Ravagnan in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, Monte Carlo, Paris and, beginning in 1975, in many German cities.

Alongside works with themes of Vedutism and entomology, he depicted threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, using an oil technique; the "electronic brush" of the computer is used later.

In the 1980s De Luigi produced sculptures, including enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous Triumphal Quadriga of St Mark's Basilica. De Luigi's horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. As of 2004, two of the horses were installed in the lobby of the Adam's Mark hotel in Saint Louis. For the Venice Carnival of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in Murano glass.

Exhibitions 1965 Galleria II Canale, Venezia 1966 Galleria II Traghetto 2, Venezia 1967 Drake Gallery, Chicago 1968 Galleria II Cannocchiale, Milano 1969 Palazzo Costanzi VII° Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, Trieste 1970 Galleria S. Stefano, Venezia Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia Galleria del Sagittario, Milano GalleriaTraghetto, Venezia 1971 Columbia University: Casa Italiana, New York 1973 Galerie Margot Delfs, Munich 1974 La Pagode, Paris Kubus, Hannover One man GalleriaTommaseo, Trieste 1975 Galleria Quarta Dimensione, Arezzo Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne Foyer des Grossen Hauses der Städt. Bühnen, Dortmund Schulzentrum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein Galerie Hennemann, Bonn Kreissparkasse, Porz (Cologne) Heimvolkshochschule, Lambrecht Galerie Hennemann, Bonn Galerie Hennemann, Bonn 1976 Palazzo Braschi, Roma Galerie Moderne Art, Baldham Galerie Anastasia, Bensberg-Refrath Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munich Kunstverein, Ingolstadt Gartensaal des Kursaalgebaudes, Bad Mergentheim Foyer des Stadttheaters, Münster Adebakademia, Mannheim Galerie Augustinum, Heidelberg Galerie Augustinum, Stuttgart Atelier für Kunstwissen, Baden-Baden 1978 Musee du Bastion, Antibes Galerie Schmidel, Cologne Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia 1979 Galerie Konok, Saint-Etienne Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Granada La casa de los Toros, Valencia 1980 Museo de l’Atarazanas, Barcelona Galerie "89", Barcelona Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 1982 Galleria Ravagnan, Venezia Galerie L´Eglantine, Lausanne 1983 Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan Galleria d´Arte Braidense, Milan Archives Municipals, Marseille Hotel de Ville, La Seyne Briancon 1984 CKO, Oostend Padiglione del Parco Massari, Ferrara 1985 Ca' Vendramin Calergi (S.I.M.A.), Venezia "Scultura in tre tempi", Caffe Florian, Venezia Galerie du Vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve 1986 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas Financial Place, Chicago Monument Main Lobby, 440 South La Salle, Chicago 1987 Adam's Mark Gallery, Saint Louis Venice Design Art Gallery, Venezia GalleriaTreviso Artigiana Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zagreb 1988 Carrefour des Arts "Couvent du Refuge", Marseille Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia "Ai Padovani", Carnevale dei Pittori, Venezia Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia Galerie Francis, Gstaad "Ciasa de Ra Regoles", Cortina d’Ampezzo 1989 Banca Popolare di Milano, Bergamo Galleria Giraldo, Treviso Galleria Opera, Belluno Galleria Il Traghetto, Venezia Premio Colonnette, Venezia Club Malvasia Vecchia, Venezia Studio Paolo Barozzi, Venezia 1990 La Terrazza Cortina d'Ampezzo Galleria Traghetto II, Venezia

1994 Art Fair, Gaunt Performance "Gondola Anfibia Carnevale di Venezia", Venezia 1995 Caffe Quadri "Nuova Quadrigaper la Basilica di S. Marco", Venezia Torre Orologio Permanent Show, Venezia 1996 Galerie Cadrama, Martigny Tonino Gallery, Campione d’Italia 1997 Exposition Europa, Skulptur, Wiener Neustadt 1998 Swisscom Center, Martigny 1999 "Diamond-Marcus" Equestre monumentale in vetro di Murano, Venezia 2002 Museo d´Arte Sant´Apollonia, Venezia Presentazione libro dell´artista "Palazzo Ducale", Venezia 2004 Esposizione permanete Farnesina, Roma 2005 Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris Contemporary Art at the Italian Pavilion Expo Aichi, Giappone 2006 Spectrum Gallery "Impossible Venice", London Italian Cultural Institute, London Schloss Seefeld, Germany Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia 2007 Venezia Impossibile, Museu Da Agua, Lisbon 2013 Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia