BIOGRAPHY
Archaeologist, art historian, philosopher, poet, photographer,
artist, but fundamentally curious.
Luigi
starts from childhood to feed on art having an uncle artist. He is fascinated,
when he finds himself in his studio, with colors, perfumes, and canvases that
turn into emotions. At the age of ten an event occurs that marks him for life:
he goes to live in Tuscany where he meets a young teacher named Sara who,
noting his artistic attitude, stimulates him further and teaches him the first
elements of painting, from the combination of colors to the preparatory work,
up to the actual pictorial execution. Under his skilful guide he realizes the
first work for his mother’s birthday entitled “Maternità”, a memory that still
accompanies him. Over the years he continues with various materials to
experiment. Subsequently it seems almost to move away completely from these
fascinating realizations, but in the end there is always a part of raw metal
ready to be attracted by an invisible magnet as soon as it sees an expression
of art. At eighteen, an uncle gave him an old rangefinder camera, a gift that
would take him through photography once again to experiment, he wrote down
everything: “times, diaphragms number of frame”, to see the result after
development he internalizes with careful precision that tool that allows him to
stop the light of emotions to get better memories; he takes part in
photographic competitions, he confronts and internalizes that language.
Fascinated
by antiquities, he embarked on a course of study that apparently seems to
distance him from those passions, instead he will learn ancient languages, he
will know thoughts, he will take him to acquire a method of analytical,
methodical study, fundamental for research.
A
case leads him to approach the computer world. Programmer, entrepreneur, this
mysterious world provides him with security and encourages him to start a
family; at the same time he must learn, he does not want to feel uncomfortable,
he studies computer science, marketing, sales, psychology, specific languages
and undertakes all the useful courses to improve.
In
2005, a market crisis, the consequent decrease in work and a serious road
accident led him to a profound rethinking and restructuring of his existence.
Later,
in 2008, there was the possibility of creating something personal, manual … a
restaurant project, thus presenting another radical change in one’s life and
deciding to quit a job that gave him no time and suffocated him and that it no
longer fascinates him. He takes up those languages he had held back,
suffering inside.
Putting
together the experiences of the various jobs carried out by the initial
soldiers to the father are built to electrician, plumber, blacksmith, mason,
mechanic, carpenter, radio technician, computer scientist, with little money
available, he creates the restaurant project with the only help of his life
partner. He starts from the masonry, breaking down and rebuilding, he designs
and realizes everything, helped by the availability of a childhood friend who
makes his carpentry workshop available and his experience in the field;
realizes chairs, tables, exhibitors, the bookshelf inspired by a tree. Think
about how to achieve creativity and not market availability; so he uses a vase
as a washbasin, a broken mirror as a mirror, steel lamps made of waste pieces;
he uses his photos framed in rusty iron, the display shelves, abandoned
windows, the bar counter with pieces for recovering data from an enthusiastic
uncle who supports their creativity by making materials available. They will
build an image that will leave those who visit them surprised, leaving them
extremely surprised by the kitchen, proposed by a psychologist friend with
great talent who will astonish everyone for its delicacy and gastronomic
refinement.
The
business is successful, but after a few months the manual dexterity begins to
fail, that surprise, giving shape to thoughts, often feels that the best moment
was the year of realization, so he understands that the activity he has
undertaken leaves him with little time to cultivate his spiritual and artistic
interests.
Look for other job opportunities that leave him space, roads
where he has more time for himself where he can reflect and give shape to his
ideas of communicating.
He
enrolls in an art school, chooses and follows those subjects that can enrich
him, once again discovering new languages, linked to the world of design that
he studies methodically, exploring his techniques and expressive potential.
Luigi
Falco is an art lover in all its forms and with an enchanted look explores the
world around him; come from a window observe a world in constant change, often
linked to unstable contrasts and strong contradictions. It analyzes and
criticizes the convulsive consumerism that creates false necessity where the
canons of change impose themselves on rhythms in a world that does not seem to
slow down to seek more conscious. Meanwhile he has had the opportunity to move
continuously in the country, living the realities, and experiences from the
environmental changes told by museums and history books.
Luigi
elaborates dynamite ideas by communicating in his works a reflection on the
changes, putting a reflection on time, the only element that is firm and
unchanging for a million years, and that is what is in the
middle between a “good start” that changes, often posing as a bulwark against
oblivion.
Creating a colorful universe, sometimes provocative, made
of reflective silences and at the same time linked to a simple musicality.
Often away from the dictates of the contemporary art
world, he explores emotional spaces and visions that are often disconcerting
and at the same time some remain linked to the simplicity of randomness.
Unrelated to the concept of seeing but much closer to feeling, it creates that
inverse metaphor of perception.
Luigi Falco is a life passionate who knew how to overcome
many obstacles himself to constantly reinvent himself.
His desire to communicate also in other languages is
reflected in the pleasure of arousing immediate emotions.
