Luca Granato

My research is based on interventions that reflect on the present time by investigating its consequences on the human condition and the contradictions of a liquid, historical, intimate memory.

At the basis of my creation process is the gift. I ask people and families to donate their domestic and personal sheets and fabrics to transform them into shrouds of memories, sentimental flags that summarize the time, pain and intimacy of which they are silent witnesses.

I collect each story with attention and care to insert its existence into a broader context, in which every individuality has a value in being in the world.

+Biography
Luca Granato (Cosenza, 1999) is a visual artist based in Italy.
Strongly interested in experimentation, his projects are multidisciplinary and long-term investigations into the antinomian conditions of the present time, ranging from sculpture to performance, from environmental installation to video art. Through an anthropological approach, linked to ethnographic, historical, social and ecological issues, his research investigates personal and collective intimacy and the state of precariousness of memory, liquid and labile, determined by processes.

To find out more about my work, visit the website

I graduated in Visual Arts and Monumental and Environmental Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro.
My artistic training includes participation in various campuses, talks, exhibitions and artistic residencies in Europe which have contributed to stimulating a continuous search for experimentation.

My studies included among others; my work moves between drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, photography, performance, art history, anthropology and communication.

I have been the winner of several international awards, including SEARTH, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, KunstlerHaus Vereinigung, ZDSLU – Zveza Društev Slovenskih Likovnih umetnikov and GAI – Associazione Giovani Artisti Italiani, the 56th edition of IL PENDIO, promoted by the Puglia Region and the Municipality of Corato, and the COMBAT PRIZE 23, promoted by the Livorno Foundation, receiving a special mention.

2024 - Collective. Cremona Art Fair

2024 - Collective. Straf Hotel, Milan

2024 - Residency. San Sebastiano Contemporary, Palazzolo Acreide

2024 - Collective. BOOMing Contemporary Art Show, Bologna

2023 - Collective. National Archaeological Museum of Sibaritide, Sibari

2023 - Collective. Cavallerizza Reale, Turin

2023 - Collective. Ex Comac, Soverato

2023 - Residency. Gias Srl, Mongrassano

2023 - Residency. Ortì, Reggio Calabria

2023 - Prize. Chiaravalle Art 23

2023 - Prize. Civic Museum "Fattori", Livorno

2023 - Collective. Sala Peres, Staranzano

2023 - Solo. MUPAC – Academy's Heritage Museum, Catanzaro

2023 - Collective. Brettii and Enotri's Museum, Cosenza

2023 - Collective. Largo, Rome

2023 - Collective. CasermArcheologica, Sansepolcro

2023 - Collective. Spazio, Livorno

2023 - Residency. Maremma National Park, Grosseto

2022 - Collective. Ex Leopoldine, Florence

2022 - Collective. Casa della Musica, Grado

2022 - Collective. Cantiere Versiliese, Viareggio

2022 - Residency. Cona Island

2022 - Collective. Cultural Hub Le Clarisse/ Luzzetti Museum, Grosseto

2022 - Collective. Ex Convento di San Benedetto, Corato

2022 - Collective. Carlo Levi Gallery, Aliano

2022 - Prize. Bocchini Palace, San Giorgio del Sanni...