Leonardo Lucchi

"My father, an art lover and collector, gave me this name thinking of Leonardo Da Vinci. Then driven by my father's interest in art and by this important name that weighed on me, I dedicated my life to sculpture.

From the beginning I was attracted, also for my innate passion for horses, by Leonardo Da Vinci's studies on the anatomy of this wonderful animal and even more intrigued by his experiments for the realization in bronze of the greatest equestrian work that would be never been made.
This project, which was ahead of its time, however, remained a dream that stimulated my imagination, as if I felt the desire to complete the horse that Leonardo had studied and designed for so long.

Starting from these bases, my work then developed towards other themes: the female figure, motherhood, children's games, the athletic gesture of equilibrists and wrestlers, ... with the aim of fixing apparently normal and at the same time exceptional.

My figures place themselves in positions that challenge natural centres of gravity and yet resolve themselves in admirable balance; bodies and objects couple suspended over an emptiness made of a substance which exists and is felt, but remains invisible:
this is what characterizes all my works...

LEONARDO LUCCHI was born in Cesena on the 9th of December 1952. He lives and works in his hometown. He accomplished his studies at the Art School of Ceramics in Faenza where he graduated in 1970. Today he is a painter, draftsman, jewelry maker and above all a sculptor, absolute master of the bronze technique.
Over the years he has experimented with various materials including marble, wood and crystal.

During more than fourty years of activity he has been exhibiting his works in many Italian and foreign towns (Modena, Rome, Venezia, Florence, Ferrara, Milan, Bologna, Palermo, Bari, London, Paris, Basel, Gent). He is also very appreciated in France, where he is often invited to expose: Nancy, Grenoble, Poitiers, Annecy, Besançon, Toulouse.
Recently, he has realized some public monumental works among which two bronze groups dedicated to the Fallen of the Second World War (Forlì and Terni), a bronze fountain for the Life Square in Bolgare near Bergamo and the wide staircase with “The Acrobats”, “La Bella di Cesena” in his town and the monument “Water: source of beauty” for a thermal centre.
His works are exhibited on a permanent basis in Rome, Paris, London and many other italian and french towns.
His studio, located just in the heart of his city Cesena, is a wide and bright environment combining both workshop and exhibition hall. It is a place where the artist continues the direct relationship with his public, which he has managed to develop over the years.