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Pieta By Cesare Lucchini
Arts Illustrated
|June - July 2019
Rosenfeld Porcini is located in a quiet by-lane just off the busy Oxford Street in Central London.
The gallery presented its third solo show of paintings by the Swiss-Italian artist, Cesare Lucchini. Spread over two floors, the exhibits comprised 14 oil-on-canvas works made between 2013 and 2019. Lucchini’s figurative abstract-expressionist paintings command a presence. This is probably owing to not only its large-scale format but also his bold and aggressive renditioning. On a closer investigation through the soothing Mediterranean palette, the underlying layers emerge, and eventually subtle forms. Most often these include human figures. ‘The starting point for me, to make a painting, normally begins from my reflections on one of the dramatic events which take place daily in our contemporary world. Certain realities provoke in me a very strong emotional response, even anger. And as a consequence, they become a reason to begin painting,’ he said once, in an interview for
This story is from the June - July 2019 edition of Arts Illustrated.
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