Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to present
Luca Lombardi, The Painterly Gesture into the Automated Era
From July 12th to July 25th, 2025.
On our Artsy page
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to present The Painterly Gesture into the Automated Era, an exclusive Online Viewing Room dedicated to the young artist Luca Lombardi (b. 1996, Brescia), available on our Artsy page.
The everyday gestures enacted through digital devices unfold as a continuous alternation of seemingly formless actions, bearing no shape but that of one’s fingerprint upon the screen. Luca Lombardi.
The lightness of his strokes, in which the geometry of the shapes seems to fluidify, describes a gesture borrowed from everyday life. His art practice is inspired by the interaction with digital screens, where the swipe gesture is translated into an action on colour that makes the pictorial surface mobile and sinuous.
(Daffra A., in Pittura-Percezione: Calderara, Casentini, Iacchetti, Lombardi, Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting Publ., 2024, pag. 16)
Luca Lombardi’s research gravitates toward a form of painting, locating the aesthetics of the digital world in a tension with the manual nature of painterly practice, questioning the value of gesture in an age where the sign seems to have lost its meaning. Through the sophisticated use of vectorial shapes, Lombardi creates layered compositions in which colour gains physical presence through the overlapping forms, generating visual environments rooted in the multiplication of the pictorial surfaces. His fascination with digital luminescence, gradients, and artificial colours leads him to develop a practice in which light seems to emanate from a screen rather than a natural source. As can be seen in his latest works from 2025, Luna in riviera and Farfalle nello stomaco, created using enamel on canvas.
The main question that underpins his work is: What is the value of the pictorial gesture today in a world dominated by automatism? In his canvases, the sign amasses until it dissolves, and the gesture asserts itself until it disappears. In this loss of meaning, the possibility of a new visual language begins to emerge once more, as in the case of Tanto da cadere in alto and Island in the Sun, both from 2025.
