Luciana
Mathioudakis

Nationality: Italian and Greek. She is based in Brussels.

Luciana studied in Italy foreign languages and history of art with Renato Cevese and Terisio Pignatti at University of Padova Lived and worked in London and Athens. She has been in Brussels for the past 32 years. During the last twenty years she attended classes with artists like Viviane Cangeloni, Veronique Decoster, Ana Pentcheva, Nikolai Nikolov, and Anne Desobry.

After many years spent using oil paint and pastels, she lately works with beeswax on panel. The technique goes back to ancient Greeks and Romans.

The centre of her work is communication in all its shapes, relation between living bodies. The human element is fundamental to her paintings, even more evident when it is absent. This absence can be found in a series of paintings of empty stations. The passengers have gone but one can still imagine their comings and goings, the noise. Recent works show people in crowded shopping malls or city centres.