Ludovico de Luigi

Ludovico De Luigi (born 11 November 1933) is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter born and living in Venice, Italy.

Career
De Luigi's first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery "Il Canale" in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner Luciano Ravagnan in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, Monte Carlo, Paris and, beginning in 1975, in many German cities.

Alongside works with themes of Vedutism and entomology, he depicted threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, using an oil technique; the "electronic brush" of the computer is used later.

In the 1980s De Luigi produced sculptures, including enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous Triumphal Quadriga of St Mark's Basilica. De Luigi's horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. As of 2004, two of the horses were installed in the lobby of the Adam's Mark hotel in Saint Louis. For the Venice Carnival of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in Murano glass.

Exhibitions
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
 * Galleria II Canale, Venezia
 * Galleria II Traghetto 2,Venezia
 * Drake Gallery, Chicago
 * Galleria II Cannocchiale, Milano
 * Palazzo Costanzi VII° Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, Trieste
 * Galleria S. Stefano, Venezia
 * Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
 * Galleria del Sagittario, Milano
 * GalleriaTraghetto, Venezia
 * Columbia University: Casa Italiana, New York
 * Galerie Margot Delfs, Munich
 * La Pagode, Paris
 * Kubus, Hannover
 * One man GalleriaTommaseo, Trieste
 * Galleria Quarta Dimensione, Arezzo
 * Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
 * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne
 * Foyer des Grossen Hauses der Städt. Bühnen, Dortmund
 * Schulzentrum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
 * Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
 * Kreissparkasse, Porz (Cologne)
 * Heimvolkshochschule, Lambrecht
 * Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
 * Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
 * Palazzo Braschi, Roma
 * Galerie Moderne Art, Baldham
 * Galerie Anastasia, Bensberg-Refrath
 * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munich
 * Kunstverein, Ingolstadt
 * Gartensaal des Kursaalgebaudes, Bad Mergentheim
 * Foyer des Stadttheaters, Münster
 * Adebakademia, Mannheim
 * Galerie Augustinum, Heidelberg
 * Galerie Augustinum, Stuttgart
 * Atelier für Kunstwissen, Baden-Baden
 * Musee du Bastion, Antibes
 * Galerie Schmidel, Cologne
 * Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia
 * Galerie Konok, Saint-Etienne
 * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
 * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Granada
 * La casa de los Toros, Valencia
 * Museo de l’Atarazanas, Barcelona
 * Galerie "89", Barcelona
 * Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
 * Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
 * Galleria Ravagnan, Venezia
 * Galerie L´Eglantine, Lausanne
 * Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan
 * Galleria d´Arte Braidense, Milan
 * Archives Municipals, Marseille
 * Hotel de Ville, La Seyne Briancon
 * CKO, Oostend
 * Padiglione del Parco Massari, Ferrara
 * Ca' Vendramin Calergi (S.I.M.A.), Venezia
 * "Scultura in tre tempi", Caffe Florian, Venezia
 * Galerie du Vieux Villeneuve, Villeneuve
 * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas
 * Financial Place, Chicago
 * Monument Main Lobby, 440 South La Salle, Chicago
 * Adam's Mark Gallery, Saint Louis
 * Venice Design Art Gallery, Venezia
 * GalleriaTreviso Artigiana
 * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zagreb
 * Carrefour des Arts "Couvent du Refuge", Marseille
 * Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
 * "Ai Padovani", Carnevale dei Pittori, Venezia
 * Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venezia
 * Galerie Francis, Gstaad
 * "Ciasa de Ra Regoles", Cortina d’Ampezzo
 * Banca Popolare di Milano, Bergamo
 * Galleria Giraldo, Treviso
 * Galleria Opera, Belluno
 * Galleria Il Traghetto, Venezia
 * Premio Colonnette, Venezia
 * Club Malvasia Vecchia, Venezia
 * Studio Paolo Barozzi, Venezia
 * La Terrazza Cortina d'Ampezzo
 * Galleria Traghetto II, Venezia

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2013
 * Art Fair, Gaunt
 * Performance "Gondola Anfibia Carnevale di Venezia", Venezia
 * Caffe Quadri "Nuova Quadrigaper la Basilica di S. Marco", Venezia
 * Torre Orologio Permanent Show, Venezia
 * Galerie Cadrama, Martigny
 * Tonino Gallery, Campione d’Italia
 * Exposition Europa, Skulptur, Wiener Neustadt
 * Swisscom Center, Martigny
 * "Diamond-Marcus" Equestre monumentale in vetro di Murano, Venezia
 * Museo d´Arte Sant´Apollonia, Venezia
 * Presentazione libro dell´artista "Palazzo Ducale", Venezia
 * Esposizione permanete Farnesina, Roma
 * Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
 * Contemporary Art at the Italian Pavilion Expo Aichi, Giappone
 * Spectrum Gallery "Impossible Venice", London
 * Italian Cultural Institute, London
 * Schloss Seefeld, Germany
 * Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
 * Venezia Impossibile, Museu Da Agua, Lisbon
 * Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia