Marco Lusini (8 September 1936 in Siena – 3 October 1989 in Florence) was an Italian artist who worked in painting, sculpture, photography, and poetry. Born in
Siena, he attended art school before relocating to
Florence in 1960. Here, he involved himself in the "Bazzechi" photographic studio before becoming well known as a painter. He actively contributed to the city's cultural life, thereby becoming a friend and collaborator to such writers and poets as
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Castel ...
,
Alessandro Parronchi
Allessandro Parronchi (Florence, 26 December 1914 – Florence, 6 January 2007) was an Italian poet, art historian, and literary critic. He won the 1999 Mondello Prize for literature.
Although much of his work has never been translated into ...
, Elvio Natali,
Piero Santi,
Elio Filippo Accrocca
Elio Filippo Accrocca (17 April 1923 – 11 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author, and translator.
Having been born in Cori, Lazio, Accrocca studied at the University of Rome under the modernist poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, who remained a cor ...
,
Enzo Carli,
Alfonso Gatto
Alfonso Gatto (17 July 1909 – 8 March 1976) was an Italian writer. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry.
Biography
Gatto stud ...
,
Giulio Guberti,
Franco Solmi,
Carlo Segala, and
Claudio Spadoni. He achieved fame throughout Italy and internationally.
Italian poet
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Castel ...
opined that the "intense figurations of extraneousness and undeception" of Lusini's earlier work allowed the viewer to "let us know him".
Luzi contrasted this with some of Lusini's later work, which he thought carried with it "a new utmost feeling of expectation and perhaps even something more... the very acute sense of the imminence of a final event".
The art critic
Elvio Natali noted that the "one unfailing subject" which recurred throughout Lusini's work was "The human image, whether it is a woman's image or a man's image, often asexual, as a symbol of a common, undifferentiated destiny."
He nevertheless noted that Lusini's work went through several cycles, among them "Lovers", "Mysterious figures", "Homage to
Brecht", "Object Woman", and "Oneiric Landscapes".
In 1978, Lusini exhibited his work in
Miami,
Florida.
Following Lusini's death, Gerhard Gruitrooy devoted his paper on
Giovanni Battista Naldini
Giovanni Battista Naldini (1535–1591) was an Italian painter in a late-Mannerist style, active in Florence and Rome.
Biography
His first apprenticeship (1549–1557) was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo. He went from Rome for a number of mon ...
to Lusini's memory in volume seventeen of ''
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal''.
References
Sources
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Further reading
*Catalogues of the Instituto D'Arte Tedesco Germanico per l’Arte Italiana del Novecento-Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
*''Catalogo Nazionale Bolaffi d'Arte Moderna'' volumes 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16
*''Catalogo "Bolaffi" Grafica'' numbers 8, 9, and 10.
*"Giornale del Mattino" (19.06.1964): La figura di Lusini – Alessandro Parronchi (1972) Presentazione alla Mostra nel Castello dei Conti Guidi, Città di Vinci (Firenze)
*"L'Unità" (20.10.1972): Le figure di Lusini, Mostra nel Castello dei Conti Guidi, Città di Vinci
*"La Nazione" (Aprile 1972 ) - "Il Giornale d'Italia" (10.02.1973) – Alessandro Parronchi (03.02.1973): Per la Mostra di Verona - "Il Gazzettino di Verona (Febbraio 1973)
*"In Galleria" a cura di Piero Santi – Mario Luzi (1980) Presentazione – Enzo Carli: Testimonianza per Marco Lusini (Settembre 1981)
*Elvio Natali, "Corriere delle Arti" (Dicembre 1981): I Paesaggi fantastici di Marco Lusini
*Riccardo Belloni: Lusini è un Astronauta, “Corriere di Romagna” (28.11.1981) –
*Enzo Carli, “Il Nuovo Ravennate” (Novembre 1981).
*M.V.: Un ricordo del pittore senese Marco Lusini: Nell’arte la sua passione per la vita, “La Nazione” (01.10.1992)
External links
Enciclopedia Treccani
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20th-century Italian artists
Artists from Siena
1936 births
1989 deaths