Luca Bellandi

Luca Bellandi was born on the 7^th of February of 1962 in Livorno, city in which he is currently living and working. In 1981, after his higher studies he applied to the art academy of Florence, where he attended the painting course held by the maestro Fernando Farullli. Once he finished his studies he started an artistic and exhibitive path that brought him to face painting, graphics, design and photography. Luca Bellandi stayed faithful to his origins, to his education, and painting became an irreplaceable way that accompanies him through the world of art. At an early stage he experimented with a language that has pop origins, influenced by the oversea culture, to then land on a more classical awareness, with specific references to the ancient world and to Italian culture. Being Bellandi a prolific artist, he caught the attention of the art world with the series Ghost, mannequins populated by breaths of live, just as sarcophaguses, keepers of a modern feeling, almost vanished, that lives hidden in this accelerated world. These elements, protagonists of his painting, project Luca Bellandi in an important exhibiting activity, that develops itself between Europe and the United States. He is an eclectic artist who researches another path, a contemporary and new one, that allows him to communicate, in an innovative way, with the past through the re-elaboration of classical figuration. In his art, painting is not only a protagonist, but drawing also takes an equally important role. Luca Bellandi’s work is always evolving, he is restless, always looking for new inputs and inspiration. This artist’s work is characterized by an extremely intense research both by the conceptual point of view and by the technical one, that bring him to indagate the world and himself again through a never ending exploration, moving through using different and unusual materials, memories and reminiscences, uncommon techniques and refined figurations. All of this is declined, in Luca Bellandi’s art, through a natural and instinctive gestures, that flows in an open painting, that is the symbol of new escapes and new journeys. This painting allows him to explore different worlds, without having actual limits. In the series Garden we can find natural elements wildly dancing, being able to create a vital spiral. In his last series Black, the disruptive gesture gives us again a classical figuration, always declined in a contemporary key. Luca Bellandi’s works are exposed in many important collections both public and private, in Italy and abroad.