Luca Moretto

Luca Moretto was born in Jesolo (Venice) in 1976, his art has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale, but he also exposed globally from Milan to Monte Carlo, and from Russia to China. The experiences of the past inspired him to experiment with the use of silicone on canvas up to the point where he was able to shape it in the most unexpected forms, conferring dignity and beauty.

The art work of Moretto brings on an intense flow of energy that turns on a sensory craving. The artist encourages the desire of the viewer to touch and caress his creations and indeed it is really hard to resist the temptation to touch the paintings that look like living suspended radicles.

The best-known work, the one that still arouses considerable emotion on the public and on the critics dates back to 2010 and is made of silicone, but hand-painted with a technique to create a relief effect. The artist from Jesolo revisited the Vespa Venice©, a copy of the Piaggio model from 1967 in Pop with flair and imagination and then exposed it at the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale in the Italian Pavilion, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi (Sala Nervi / Turin). In 2012, the Vespa Venice© becomes a permanent guest at the Piaggio Museum, considered by ICON as one of...

LIFE. To art with pain;
Luca Moretto was born in Jesolo (Venice) in 1976.
An adolescent with a restless intellect and tending to focus on sensation,
he attended the State Art School (I.S.A.) of Venice.
He immediately fell in love with goldsmithery work, but the verbal thought
that prevails in the teaching system bored and frustrated him so that it
was not long before he left school. The awareness of being a profi cient
inventor of objects, however, let in a new glimmer of light and even though
he did jobs that had nothing to do with art, he started to work with various
materials, creating objects of daily use or just pure aesthetic inventions.
He designed and, with the help of his mother, made a cotton cardigan
which was striking for the background colours, a factor that would
reappear in many of his works. He converted his bedroom making
mosaics out of broken tile pieces, with a style similar to Gaudì who he had not yet heard of. He decorated a “VESPA 50” according to the canons of his own highly personal PopArt. He attended an interior decoration course.
In 1999 when he was just twenty-three, a road accident changed his “existential architecture”: a neglected wound, a giddy descent into the depths of physical pain, ...