Italian artist Saverio Lucci is putting his contemporary works on show during "La Pelle -- The Skin Painting" at Le Link Gallery, until June 17.
A prolific contemporary artist and designer with a strong aesthetic influence on popular culture today, Lucci has a great sense of imagination, mastering illusionistic painting techniques with naturalistic realism.
In this exhibition, he emphasises on how human skin is a protective barrier against external factors. He is reinventing the past with contemporary witnesses, incorporating different elements with his works.
He used plastic, as humans are submerged in daily use of it, and cement, to show how humans developed civilisation, and petrol as energy, to show being reborn not as a human but machine. He picked silk and lace, to symbolise if and how we do need an appearance as a shell without a soul and also fire, as an element to show destruction.
"We are a witness of our time," said Lucci, who has chosen to use skin as his subject in this exhibition to reflect the realities of today, such as environmental destruction, pollution, climate change and contamination.
"It is the most exposed and vulnerable part of our body, it's our external protection as first to be damaged of these factors. It is also our way of showing ourselves as a shell," said the artist.
Lucci enrolled in the Technical School of Ferrara and began his professional career as an industrial and interior designer. He has since designed the interiors of many hotels and restaurants, banks and prestigious corporate offices, as well as the most opulent homes and palaces. As a diversified artist, his art works are collected worldwide.
Le Link Gallery is on Soi Ton Son and is open Wednesdays until Saturdays, noon-6pm.
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