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Luca Alinari (27 October 1943 – 15 March 2019) was an

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painter.

Biography

Alinari was born in

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. Self-taught, he made his debut in 1968 with his first one-man show at the Galleria Inquadrature in Florence. During the 1970s he began an intense research on the free juxtaposition of objects and figures within a fantastical and suspended atmosphere, influenced by

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and Pop Art research. During those years he experimented with various pictorial techniques, combining fluorescent colours,

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, collage and photographic transpositions. Between 1972 and 1973 he exhibited in the main private galleries in Florence, presented by his friend the poet

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. During the 1980s he gained official recognition through his participation in the 40th

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(1982) and in the 11th

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(1985). In 1993 he had his first retrospective mounted at the

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Museum, where he showed a group of works spanning his whole artistic career. The exhibition signalled the beginning of his series of fantastical landscapes characterised by bright, vivid colours and a pictorial technique combining thickly applied pigment with refined fields of smooth, transparent colour. Luca Alinari died in Florence on March 15, 2019 at the age of 76.

Bibliography

* Gianni Pozzi, ‘’Luca Alinari’’, Vallecchi, Florence, 1986. * Elena Lissoni
Luca Alinari
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References

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