Luca Blood

Luca W M Blood,

These painting seem to be almost thrust into existence, as much as they're thrust into the viewers' vision. There persists a collision between structured form - established through hypnotic patterns that hark back to ancient rituals (Aztec, Egyptian, Shaman and so on) - and the dirt of evolution. But this is then twisted further through haunted reflections on the artist's seeming belief in the tampering by alien's with the human being. Strange beings - both known and unknown - stare straight at us, as in a work titled Trench Mask - or luminous patterns lead us into complex spaces, as in the beautifully named Opium Cobweb. What are we looking at here? The result is ambiguous. Though maybe one can see these intoxicated designs as microscopic samples, as imagined scientific data of the human blood stream opening up a trail into Man's supposed alien ancestry. Fragments of mutated bacteria shimmer magnified from a petri dish, forging otherworldly gateways.
This collision is further established in the balance that Luca creates between the ancient and the modern. The viewer is forced to think of both ancient pre-Christian tribal religions as well as the contemporary. For instance, in some works, such as Automatic Ses...

i attended the BRIT school 1998-2003 , and KIAD 2003-4 dropping out due to a fall of health. i studied as a member of the theosophical society, and attended their book shows,
i started off easle painting in the ninties in orpington with lawrence maxwell, an artist and close freind, i do performance sketching in the local streets regulary, and position myself in the parks using pads and black ink. i have studied in my personal self built library authors that range from esoterism, to daniken and sitchen, i enjoy rudolf steiner, and have learnt his colour theories, i also am intersed in oceanic art, and the psychic automaticm, i had a strange weekly of events which i called pixelation experience, and electro magnetic forces with spirits,. due to this i started reading more about shamanism, and also writing poetry to describe it.

i have one book published 'papyrus of the pillow' filled with anger at language and trance-like meditations on industrial eroticism.

i used to paint from a smooth kind of realism on board with energy that of smiling mouths and shimmering skin, and generally broke down into a raw climax of abstract boldness. producing works every year and sending them to my agency, only that i am unsure where my story o...

2011 – Centre culturel, Whistable, Royaume-Uni

Collective expositions-----

2011 – Réso77, Melun, France
2011 – Casden, Noisiels, France
2011 – Grand Marché d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2011 – Centre culturel Christiane Peugeot, Paris, France
2011 – Palais de l’Europe, Le Touquet, France
2011 – Domaine de Chalès, Nouan-le-Fuzelier, France
2011 – Tour de France de la Poésie, Médiathèque de Carnac, France
2011 – Salon d’art de la Bellevilloise, Paris, France