Career
De Luigi first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery ‘Il Canale’ in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and other fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner, Luciano Ravagnan, in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, MonteCarlo, Paris and, from 1975, in many German cities.
Alongside the line of Vedutism and entomology, he depicted the threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism of the city. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, due to an oil technique to which the use of the ‘electronic brush’ of the computer is added later.
In the 1980s De Luigi carried out some sculptures, creating enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous quadriga of St. Mark’s. De Luigi’s horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. For the Venice carnival of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in glass, created in the furnaces on Murano.
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