Room 22 - LUCIANO PERA

1925

Amerigo Luciano Pera was born January 7 in Badia di Cantignano, a small village in the countryside of Lucca, by Peter and Dina Pods, both from Tuscany.

 1937-1945

Start young to draw, paint and model inspired by every aspect of nature . Is fascinated by the mechanics and engines following the work of his father, one of the top designers and manufacturers of automobiles in Italy . In the workshop - studio Abbey Cantignano begins to experience a variety of materials with a lively curiosity that characterize all his life. In Lucca Gymnasium and studied at the Liceo Classico Machiavelli. He spent the war years between Lucca and the Abbey of Cantignano , often forced into hiding on the Pisan hills to escape the raids carried out by German troops. More than once you save fortuitously, as when, captured by the Gestapo, is released because the commander was impressed by his paintings. Back in Lucca, he graduated in 1945 from the Liceo Scientifico Vallisneri, and attended the studios of painters Armando and Mario Micheli Nardi . Visit museums in Tuscany and studied Renaissance painters, working on a reinterpretation of their works.

1945-1955

In recent years form the incredible view of the world of Pera , a man extremely versatile, curious, attentive to all aspects of learning and human knowledge. He enrolled and attended the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Pisa, where he is particularly interested in the Biology course taught by Leo Pardi, and runs parallel to the lessons of History of Art by Matteo Marangoni. In Florence, he attended the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts and the study of Ottone Rosai, Lucca is present at the Cafe Di Simo, where it meets the Group Serra. In 1947 he left for Paris, where he has meetings with representatives of major artistic and literary culture of the time: Bernard Buffet, Lucien Fontanarosa, Max Ernst , Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Marc Chagall, Ardengo Soft , Filippo De Pisis, Gino Severini and Campigli . He knows Roland Barthes, he attended the Musée de l' Homme and follows the lessons of André Levy Strauss, getting passionate ever more deeply the history of man. In 1948 he participated in a group exhibition at the Galerie de l' Odeon. In Italy, he continued his medical studies at their university of Genoa, where he later attended the Faculty of Biology. These studies will be essential in the formation of his poetic vision. In Paris he attended the Sorbonne, the Faculty of Humanities. Acquainted to the Provence, a place that will remain tied throughout his life, finding deep affinity with his native land and continuous artistic and intellectual stimuli. In Vence finds meets Henry Matisse and Marc Chagall. Expands his artistic research in addition to experimenting with painting also sculpture, engraving, ceramics, graffiti, decoupage and frottage , starting with a very personal journey to the essence of primitive signs . In Lucca, his studio in Piazza San Romano becomes a meeting place for artists, writers and art critics, and at the same time creates ceramic works in the lab OCAL Piazzetta San Pellegrino. In 1952 participates in the Painting Prize Bagni di Lucca with the works Tulips and Yvette, and is rewarded by Carlo Carra, who finds himself in Forte dei Marmi to the Fourth Plane, along with Ardengo Soft, Roberto Longhi, Enrico Pea and his friend Leo Lorenzetti. From 1953 to 1955 helped his father seriously ill in the management of the family business, a school for drivers of motor vehicles, which will handle the death of his father personally and, at the invitation of the Italian Shell, will also take courses off-road driving. While working hard in school, Pear continues his artistic research. During this time the series born Compositions of painting en gris and Venus. In 1955 he exhibited at the Gallery Flame Number of Vigo in Florence.

 1955-1970

These years are characterized by constant movement between Italy, France and Spain. A Biot and Vallauris in the South of France , he attended the pottery workshops where they work even Picasso, Roger Capron , Modoura and Wilfredo Lam. A Saint Paul and Vence meets and attends Alberto Magnelli, Marc Chagall, George Braque, Jacques Prevert, Manfredo Borsi, André Verdet, Enzo Cini, Riccardo Schweizer and Raymond Dauphin. Continues his research in the field of anthropology, investigating Paleolithic and neolithic excavations and surveys in France, Ariège along with Robert Romain and Région des Merveilles by Nino Lamboglia. In Spain, directed by Don Louis Garcia, in Vizcaya. In Italy analyzes the cave drawings of Valcamonica, the Circeo conducts research into the properties of Neanderthal man Carlo Alberto Blanc and Power works with Francesco Rinaldi to Tuppo Sassi . Malta is engaged in excavations together with Paolo Graziosi and Paul Bernabo Brea . The collaboration continues with Pretty in Florence at the Institute of Anthropology and Paleontology Via S. Egidio, where he deepened his studies of comparative anatomy. In 1962 he was in Venice where he took part in the ceremony for the conferral of honorary citizenship to Peggy Guggenheim and knows where Emilio Vedova and Giuseppe Marchiori. In 1964 he married Rosy Beruti, a biologist and naturalist, who will be his faithful companion for life and will share his passion for nature and the study of the roots of man, following him in his quest for ever deeper in the mystery of creation and on ' essence of existence. In the same year in Saint Paul de Vence to attend the inauguration, held by Andre Malraux Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, a foundation that will continue to attend assiduously. It ' Avignon for cultural encounters during the great Picasso exhibition at the Palace of the Popes. From 1966 to 1968 he returned to Paris where he became friends with Léon Pales and André Leroi - Gourhan. He attended the Musee de L'Homme knows Hans Hartung at the Galerie La Hune in the atelier of Fernand Morisot and meets Miro who later finds himself in Saint Paul de Vence. Nice to know Lunia Czechowska, friend and model of Modigliani, which will become a close friend. In Italy, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, where he met Giulio Carlo Argan, follows the courses of High Culture International . Become a member of the International Institute of Ligurian Studies and the Societé Préhistorique Ariège . He continued his artistic research exposing in Italy and France. Birth of the series of the Metamorphoses, paintings full of references and surreal and unconscious signs of mystery . When Pera creates is as held by archaic worlds , from distant cultures that converge in his works, abstract and timeless as when exploring a cave in search of signs of man.

 1970-1980

In this decade Pera is dedicated to consistently sculpture in Pietrasanta works in marble workshops and foundries, in particular in the study of Shem Ghelardini and Foundry Mariani. Use the ancient presses the printing Malbacco Aldo Galleni , evoking the surreal and mysterious shapes on paper, the result of his very lively imagination nourished by deep knowledge, vast curiosity and continuous cultural exchanges with artists and intellectuals. Often stays in Rome, where he attended the cultural and artistic environment that revolves around Leonidas Sinisgalli, Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Ferrarino, Alfonso Gatto, André Masson, Ignazio Silone and Carlo Levi . Work in Salento where he finds his old friends in Paris, Arno Mandello , Helene Asbehe - Cristofanetti and Normann and Patience Mommens . Create a range of jewelery for Rosy - symbolic sculpture, with references to ancient civilizations and Fantastic Beasts are creations propitiatory, magic, powerfully evocative . Graphic research deepens experimenting with lithography in the printing Angels of Lucca and Pisa in the printing of The Seagull . Create graffiti on stone of Bavaria and, in Villefranche - sur - Mer, carborundum etchings working together with Henri Goetz. Become a member of the Tiber in Rome. In the early 70s he participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and in the world. He exhibited at the European Centre in Brussels, at the Contemporary Art Gallery in New York and at the Chapelle Cocteau in Villefranche - sur - Mer, where he met and became friends with Akira Nakamura, an eclectic artist with whom he had an intense cultural exchange and pictorial creations. Holds other exposures to the Gallery Number of Flame Vigo to Rome , the Escorial in Monte Carlo, at the Galleria Il Riccio 1 of Venice ( where he presents the lithographic Appel de la lumière sur la des humains deafness , with an introduction by Carlo Munari ), in Marina di Carrara, Pisa, Cortina, Forte dei Marmi, Bologna, Saint Paul de Vence, Biot, Vallauris and Nice, where the Galerie Michael Soap knows, among the many artists, Paul Mansouroff, Anton Clave and George Mathieu. Frequently stayed in Bologna, where he finds a cultural climate and working extremely stimulating. He exhibited at the Art Club , where he met Max Bill, Leo Castelli Giuseppe Raimondi, Claudio Cerritelli, Dorfles, and strikes up a friendship with Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Celli, Joy and Bartholomew De Franco Solmi . At the Gallery Trimarchi found his friend Antonio Corpora. In 1975, during an exhibition at the Cultural Center for the Visual Information in Rome, has a nice meeting with Giorgio De Chirico. The following year he exhibited at the Galerie You Biot - de - Biot, in Nice at the Galerie Matarasso, Venice and the Galleria Number of Flame Vigo Venice knows Egidio Costantini and he plans to work on the glass for the Forge of Angels. In the same year, invited by Franco Passoni , performs some murals in Capo Vaticano in Calabria, and at the invitation of Franco Solmi, participates in Bologna Illustrators Exhibition at the X with the lithographic Ode atom, a tribute to Pablo Neruda. For a brief period approaches the Fluxus group. From 1975 to 1979 he worked often in Albissola in pottery workshops, where he attended friends Gianni Frassati, Milena Milani, Fabbri , Wilfredo Lam and Tullio Albissola and at the invitation of the gallery Rabbit, exhibited at the Gallery Well Sentry Box Albissola and Homo Gallery sapiens in Savona. During the same period he became friends with Guglielmo Achille Cavellini , Rosalda Gilardi and Pomodoro.

 1980-1990

In these years living between Versilia , Lucca and Provence. Intensifying contacts with the French cultural world , attending Paul Bury, Ben Vautier, Leo Ferré, André Verdet, Andre Villers, dear friend and his personal photographer, Adrien Maeght, Henry Bavaria, Jacques and Madeleine Matarasso, Pierre Restany, César, Arman, Sacha Sosno, Jean-Louis Prat, Frederic Altmann, Raymond Hains, Jacques Lepage, Guillaume Cornelis Van Beverloo " Corneille " and Hans Hartung, and with some of them maintains a tight bond letters. And ' present in Galleries Soap, Matarasso and Ferrero. In Cannes, often visits the shop of Jean and Hughette Ramié, fans of ethnology and anthropology, and Galerie Hotel Carlton. In 1980 he held an important person at the Municipal Museum in St. Paul de Vence. In 1982 she participated in Nice at the first International Congress of Human Paleontology, where he met Professor Copins. In 1984 he was present at the XIX International Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture Foundation Pagani Legnano Castellanza, and became friends with Enzo Pagani. Continue to carve, creating monumental works in marble, tuff, travertine and bronze, with a strong symbolic and archaic. In painting continues the series of the Metamorphoses and Biological Mechanisms and began a series of Cathedrals. It also creates artist's books and illustrations of art , continuing a graphic research in which primitive dance with signs arising from the unconscious. In 1990 he was invited by the Cultural Fountains of Frabosa Soprana to exhibit sculptures in the exhibition with his friend Guido Bruno Music and Art in the caves of Bossea.

 1990-2000

Continue to work in France and Tuscany . Leave his studio in the Rue St. Joseph in the Old town and opens a Cremat in the hills of Nice, where he works and meets old friends and new. Always Nice presents its portables Sculptures at the Galerie Isabelle Contempor'Art Gilioli . In Pietrasanta creates sculptures of the series The flights and Millennium, and has success with her ​​jewelry - sculpture at the Art Studio The chisel Mariella Poli. Continuing exhibitions in Italy and France with solo and group exhibition at the Galerie Maurel in La Colle -sur -Loup, at the Galerie Matarasso in Nice, where he became friends with Michel Butor, at the Galerie Les Cyclades Antibes, at the center of Pietrasanta Luigi Russo ( with staff Eves et Reves ), the Villa Henraux Seravezza and the Palazzo Ducale in Lucca. With his friend Giorgio Celli, with whom he shares a passion for cats and ethnology, realizes the artist's book " The seven heavenly virtues of the rainbow." Create different sets of painting by highly evocative titles : Dance of the stones, Combinations and Games - Disintegrations cosmic wind.

 2000-2013