Exhibition of the works of the painter Luca Gherardi displayed in the conference room in Piazza Bartoli.
Personal exhibition presentation
The countryside that embraces Casciana comes with a view of endless shades of green that create a deep emotion. The hills born from the ancient sea flank soft, almost musical modulated horizons that are strengthened in the upper parlascio.
This is where your architect operates with his studio immersed in this world created in a space time and aimed at contemporary thinking.
I didn't know Luca personally but I felt his work even as a passionate painter eager to marry his two activities.
Accompanied in the studio by an elegant spiral staircase they were exhibited in various environments as we painters use a large number of paintings fruit of continuous commitment of humble passionate.
Through his works on both canvas and board he reveals a builder's soul with lines in space suggested with harmonic rhythmic education.
It should be noted that he expresses himself freely without suffering the various difficulties of the spaces.
His palette expresses a poetic soul where the expressive force presents itself to the observer on tiptoe to attract him with interest to his world.
There are three main themes of his exhibition.
The first one rich in colour narrates the depths in the sea with the aim of reconstructing in the soft silence all those presences that are nourished in the water origin of life and from which we probably come too.
This curiosity of his investigation can be observed in the great painting where we witness with interest to see in the liquid two figurines with a gelatinous profile in the act of immersing themselves in the centre as if they wanted to return to their origin.
It is described the coral reef with myriads of fantastic colours is one of the greatest miracles of ''mother'' nature that without fear must be protected.
A small landscape is noticed where a large vast fog gives a glimpse of a hilly landscape typical phenomenon of our valleys that amaze with the changes in atmosphere with a magical flavour.
A series of landscapes follows where the sky-earth-water elements are linked by very fine rays of very bright light as if to seam them together in an absolute unity while the colours are enhanced by empathy.
A great overview of Venice from the intense pink sunset will be visible: that it is finally protected as one of our greatest historical jewels.
Some close-ups are made with expressionist brushstrokes highlighting the depths using saturated contrast colours as well.
I wish Luca a sure success and those who will participate in his review will bring in their minds the compositions and colours that he has donated as a painter.
Enrico Fornaini, painter
Biographical Notes:
Luca Gherardi was born on 30/12/1952 in Casciana Terme, where he still lives and works. He graduated from the State Institute of Art in Cascina and holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Florence. She began actively participating in artistic life in 1970, holding personal and participating in numerous National and International and collective competitions. Of his works he has been written in specialised magazines such as Eco d'Arte Moderna and Scena Illustrata. Prof. Dino Carlesi called his painting “expression of a state of mind that knows how to grasp the poetic side of the world around us; he knows how to move away from reality, without however fleeing it, to focus on that fantastic and poetic world that reads in things”. After a long period during which he devoted himself exclusively to the activity of architect, in 2018 he resumed painting and recently exhibited his works again. In 2023 he participated in the collective Architects at work at the Church of S. Stefano dei Cavalieri in Pisa and at the event Passaggi d'arte in the village of Pietraia in Casciana Terme, during which he was one of the protagonists of the exhibition Two artists in comparison with the presentation of Ilario Luperini, a critic and art historian.
