Luca Bestetti

BESTETTI THE PAINTER

Luca Bestetti was born in Milan on October 10th 1964. He went to the '' cartoons & illustration school of Milan '' in the picturesque Via Savona 10 in old town Milan right across the old Naviglio river. During his school years, inspired by the master Giorgio de Chirico, he studied different art techniques starting with pencil & charcoal drawing, oil painting and sculpting.
His art is strongly influenced by the long and daily conversations with numerous painters and artists met in his family's home in Via Margutta in Rome.
His family, at the time, owned a very prestigious Art books publishing company , the '' Bestetti and Tumminelli ''.
This company was founded in 1915, by his great-grandfather, Emilio Bestetti in Milan and in Rome and was continued by the family and his father Carlo Bestetti.
Emilio Bestetti wanted to keep his " independency ''. He founded and started different art magazines and had some of the most brilliant writers and artists of that era working for him.
:''Art can have many different way of expression. That doesn't diminish its expressiveness and or the value of the artists'' , says Luca Bestetti .
The artist can express himself not only with painting but in many differe...