Luigi Gardenal

Luigi Gardenal was born in Mestre in 1950, the city where he still resides. In the forty years of his career he focused on multiple activities including painting, engraving, graphics and urban design. He also designed environmental installations and multimedia performances and created artistic events related to different disciplines with different languages. In each work, the protagonist are colours that the artist cleverly adapts to collages, engravings on canvas and PVC, bandages, metal plates and papers with exotic origins. Color is used as a means to cross history and make a journey through the sedimentations of human civilization. Among the various subjects, that of travel accompanies many of his works. Often are journeys close to those made by the artist, where he investigates and represents visions of monumental architecture, improbable spaces, the lagoon and Porto Marghera. Other times the places narrated are impervious landscapes such as the Khyber Pass, the mountain pass that connects Pakistan with Afghanistan, crossed several times by the artist, as an archaeological designer and a researcher of traces and shapes.