Luciano Maciotta

What am I? People who know me and my works say “you are a scientist lent to Art”. Frankly speaking I believe that is ok. Scientists and Artists have many common characters. Since ancient times both want to find out how the world is made. Scientists use an intuitive model analogous to the artists. It feeds on analogies, metaphors, images and experiments.But they use also an analytical model based on the rigid application of a formal logic, which leaves little room for intuition, which is naturally the engine of artistic creativity. I was very impressed by coincidence with which a young scientist (Einstein) and a young artist (Picasso) at the same age of 26 years had caught, together, almost in unison, the "spirit of the times", breaking the barriers of physics and painting respectively in the same time without knowing each other and without knowing the work of the other. Today the Communication of Science cannot disregard Art. Now relevant decisions in Science are taken in partnership between scientists and a series of public of non-experts.We have moved from a world in which Science and Society were substantially separated, to a world in which Science and Society are strongly interpenetrated. The Science communication is no longe...

Born under the bombings of the 2nd World War, which destroyed my family's house in Milan (Italy). At the end of the High Schools my father died and I gave up dedicating myself to my innate vocation for creativity and art, music and drawing particularly. I graduated at 24 years in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan. I spent ten years in a large Research Laboratory on the electrical conductors and dielectrics of an important multinational, dealing with high voltage electrical discharges, arcs and moving energy, light and electrical phenomena and therefore I had to acquire a vision of energy and matter less superficial and approximate than other artists. An evocative photograph, published on a monograph of the time, shows one of the experiments conducted in this laboratory.It is a snapshot, a blunder and, literally, a shock. You can see it in the photograph of the cover of my FB private account. And it is from here that the artist started out, as Walter De Maria had done in the extraordinary work of Lightning Field in 1977.
In this period I came across and experimented with LEDs, which after 25 years became the “key” that opened the door of art to me having sensed, among the first, that it could become a new medium...

More than 120 Exhibitions, 88 excluding private spaces not Art specific:

Exhibitions-Art Fairs (# 4-10 works) MIART, Milan Art Fair, 2009 & 2010; Verona Art Fair, 200 8 & 2009;Bergamo Art Fair, 2009, 2010 &2012; Padova Art Fair, 2007, 2011 & 2012;Affordable Art Fair, Milan, 2013, 2014 & 2015; Art Genova,Genova, 2013. With 5 Galleries(Cavenaghi Arte, Scoglio di Quarto, Arte Gioia 107, Aretusa & S.Stefano)

Solo Exhibitions-Museums & Institutions 2006 “Al di la’ dello spazio, della luce e del colore”, City Hall,Villasanta;2007 “Dipingere con la luce”, Chapel of Palazzo Mediceo Seravezza-Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of San Dona’ di Piave;2008 “Luci senza tempo” Bell Tower of the Cathedral of San Martino,Pietrasanta; 2010 University Bocconi,Milan-“Dipingere con la luce”, Foundation Toniolo,Verona-Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio,Como-“Tracce di luce alle finestre…per andare oltre”, Rotonda di via Besana,Milan;2012 “Luce e immagine”, City Hall,Cremona;2013 “The Amazing Art of Energy”, Biennale Pria 2013, Spazio Pria,Biella-“Turn on the light” organized by Authority of 5 Terre National Park,Manarola;2015 “Arte & Energia per i Navigli”, Darsena of Milan for Expo 2015

Solo Exhibitions-private Galleries 2016 Gallery Gestalt...