Standing in timid helplessness at
the foot of a mountain, two naked bird-people, are looking down at
a valley where the path is splitting up and getting lost in
the fine infinity of a yellow horizon. Question: What are they doing?
Answer: They are pondering on what destiny their creator had in store for
them. Their creator’s name is Luigi La Speranza. Born in 1962 in Vienna,
Austria, he had his first exhibition at the age of eight. Three years later
his works were shown at the Künstlerhaus. Then he was studying under
Prof. Rudolf Hausner, and did his final diploma in 1985. Until 1987 he
was painting in Prof. Arik Brauer’s master class. Numerous group and individual
exhibitions followed. Since 1993 he has been working in his own studio-gallery
in Siebensterngasse (Vienna’s 7th district), where his works are also on
display. He is painting human beings as well as animals, which in every
painting undergo a new physical symbiosis, just as if nature had diced
anew. His paintings show landscapes that are silently passing in the background.
Since they are close to nature, they return to the painted world something
of the reality only poetry and its originality claim for their own. His
fantastic worlds are full of colours; the unusual depth is flirting with
playful symbolism, and from time to time it grants an insight into other
dimensions. Due to his early talent he could profit from this advantage
and thus leave behind the step of making something new – at any price -
as well as the manual routine, to discover for himself that dimension of
maturity which turns a painting into a work of art. The technique of the
old masters and a fancy for details are dominant in the picturesque complexity
of his paintings. They show actions and scenes full of bizarre creatures
– bird-people within landscapes that have found their deep eternity. Question:
Going his only possible way, what is Luigi La Speranza doing in his studio-gallery?
Answer: He is painting. (Dalibor Truhlar) |
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