Gianluca Lattuada

In this series, Lattuada works with a warm, earthy palette drawn from nature (oxides, reddish tones, deep browns, dense blacks, and light glazes). These hues give rise to atmospheric surfaces in which layers of paint merge with one another, creating an immersive, tactile sensation.

His material treatment of color suggests a latent organic presence, through a pictorial gesture that evokes processes of transformation and metamorphosis, in dialogue with natural elements such as light, fire, earth, ash, mist, or the sea.

Each work seems to attempt to capture the intangible: that which is constantly changing, which cannot be fixed, but can be perceived. Painting becomes a means of connecting with the essential—a place where color, texture, and light converse.

An experience that activates the viewer’s memory, imagination, and sensitivity, inviting them to inhabit uncertainty and embrace the passage of time. Lattuada leads us into landscapes without horizon, natures in turmoil, where time dissolves into warm stains, suspended ashes, rusty mists, undulations of pigment that recall the movement of the sea, the breath of the wind, or the shifting reflection of light. The ephemeral and nebulous form of these paintings evokes a celebration of transition, of change, of the energy that courses through and transforms matter.

Influenced by artists such as Mark Rothko, in his pursuit of profound emotional atmospheres and a spirituality contained within color; Antoni Tàpies, for his connection to memory and the poetics of matter; or Anselm Kiefer, for his symbolic use of natural materials to speak of history, memory, and transcendence, Gianluca Lattuada’s work proposes an introspective and sensorial universe, where painting is manifested as ritual, as a form of contemplation, and as a passage between the visible and the invisible, between permanence and transformation through the passage of time.

Ph. by @joaquinanzoategui