1. Biography
Luigi De Giovanni born on 12 February 1950 in Specchia (Lecce).
He graduated to the Institute of Art of Poggiardo in the 1969.
In the 1974 he graduated to the Academy of the Fine Arts from Rome. From the
1970 to the 1978 he follows the Free Course of the Nude.
From tender age he paints designs and acquerelli followed from the mother. In the
1967 he paints frequently and he does the his before collective show. In the 1973
with the Avanessian teacher he begins the study of the “imprimitura” of the cloths
and of the powders. In the 1974 he improve in the technique to oil. In the 1980
experiment the temper to the egg; he realize some operas with an only thread
conductor "social climbs." In the 1988 he experiment coed techniques with the
custom of materials of discard symbol of "refusal" which: segatura, metallic shavings,
shiver of unserviceable rubber, paper and cloths.
He begins the report with the Gallery "Mentana" from Florence that presents him to
the Fair Arc from Madrid. In the 1990 he starts to realize and to expose operas that
have like conductor thread "the anguish in the actual society"; he starts to use the
old jeans like cloths for his operas to social character. From the 1979 he paints
Sardinia where he spends long periods.
CRITICS
The painter’s poetical world is the symbol of a fertile song, but also a stage of
happy presences, though human beings are absent. Luigi De Giovanni
searches faith, a spiritual meaning. He’s an artist who feels a desire to regard
canvases as pages of an endless diary, because nature’s particular and
messages have no end. He feels the necessity to bring to ligth all the answers
to man’s existential anxietis. In De Giovanni’s compositions the trees are the
archetype that transforms itself into poetic imagination, exalted in forms
referable to reality, Luigi De Giovanni choose very few themes to
communicate his enlightements that reveal their meaning like intimate
exclamations. His post – impressionist intimism lives through the necessity to
catch on to the absolute and observes the static nature of landscapes, as
something definite and everlasting.
Paolo Levi