Tuttuno Installation

Maria Grazia Lurgo, known professionally as Mya Lurgo, was born in Bordighera, in the province of Imperia on the Italian Riviera, on 30 May 1971. Artistic expression has always been a way for her to search and find – even in her infancy – rather than the starting point for the kind of work that typically means being geared to earning a living. The non-academic line of study she chose actually resulted in her opening and managing three sports medicine centres in Lugano (Switzerland), before she turned her attention to gallery art. And yet the path of art - which she never ceased to tread in parallel with this - had the time, the tools and the energy to be cultivated outside the mechanisms of the art system, developing a close affinity with the initiations that her life has occasioned and imposed. In practice, three vital turning points have influenced Mya Lurgo's artistic progress: the birth of her first child, an illness and her practice and application of the spiritual research that the artist has employed to nourish her soul ever since her adolescence, by means of philosophical and esoteric studies. These three episodes established radical turning points in her thinking and in how she has put that thinking into practice, in due course culminating in the decision to live from her art, as a material and immaterial expression of herself, certainly inspired by Yves Klein. Mya Lurgo's acentrism is the synthesis of this.