"Vertigo ménage" Painting

Also known as Luispak, Luigi Longobardi, night time painter, graffiti writer, graphic designer, illustrator, was born in 1984 in Salerno. Early fan of comics and drawing, he came up, only 13 years old, into the world of writing, choosing his path in a continuos study of his signature and a constant search for an artistic identity until the foundation, in 1999, of the “Drak” crew. By mixing all of his experiences he puts on a wall his feelings, experiences and dreams, in search of style, form and typefaces styling. His formation is rich in nuances. He attends the Higher Institute of Art of Salerno, where he studies graphic design, he attends a course in design for cartoonists and one in arts. His art is in fact the result of a mixture of concepts and different techniques. He uses many of the skills acquired with graffitis and many design rules in order to give harmony and cleanliness to his creations. Very active into design’s world, writing and contemporary painting. In 2007, after several artistic experiences, he arrives in America exposing in Crewest Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles and shortly after in Plantazero Gallery in Barcelona. He returns to Italy with renewed and enriched creativity, and a relentless desire to express it. The contact with new artists, new expressions of art, political realities and new friendship has been a source of inspiration for him. Experimenting all drawing techniques, from spray to brush, he applies them to different surfaces like canvas, walls and even iron. He collaborated with famous agencies, for example Saatchi & Saatchi Italy and he designed for big brands, for example Trovimap lte, Enel, BNL, RedBull and many others. Everyday he works in his design studio/workshop (), collaborating with various advertising agencies, while he passes his free time drawing, studying, creating characters and painting on any kind of surface, always searching for new PAINTED EMOTIONS…