Luca Bellandi
Painting works
Between memory and contemporary sensibility, Luca Bellandi creates a figurative universe shaped by gesture, material and reminiscence. His suspended figures and visionary landscapes transform painting into a journey between past and present, reality and imagination.
Biography
Luca Bellandi was born in Livorno in 1962, where he currently lives and works. In 1981, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he studied painting under Fernando Farulli. After completing his studies, he developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, graphic art, design and photography, while remaining deeply committed to painting as his primary form of expression.
After an early Pop-inspired period, Bellandi developed a more classical visual language, reinterpreted through a contemporary perspective. His Ghost series, featuring mannequins suspended between presence and absence, brought him international recognition and led to an extensive exhibition career across Europe and the United States.
His constantly evolving practice combines figuration, memory, unconventional materials and experimental techniques. In the Garden series, natural elements intertwine in dynamic vortices of energy and vitality, while his more recent Blackseries reinterprets classical figuration through an intense and expressive contemporary language. His works are held in important public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
