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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
Luigi Ontani (Vergato BO 1943 - living), painter, sculptor and photographer, ceramist, versatile artist is self-taught. During his military service in Turin, 1964-1965, he came into contact with gallery owners and artists and became interested in contemporary literature. Back in Vergato, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, made sculptures, the first 'tableaux vivants' and became interested in photography, first exhibitions in Bologna. From 1970 he was in Rome, from 1974 his first international recognitions in New York, at the Venice Biennale and in the main European cities. He has always been fascinated by the exotic, travelling to India and Bali, by craftsmanship experimenting with techniques and creating imaginative sculptures object and by literature is a masked but recognisable protagonist in his compositions. He mixes myths and cultures with irony and narcissism convinced that art is an elsewhere that distracts and amuses. Lithograph signed and numbered in pencil below the subject. Exemplar XIII/XXXXII. Dry stamp lower right: in cursive NN. Excellent condition, bright colours, slight defect to paper in lower left corner.
ID: 11318-1714403292-89414
