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Luciana Livi

20 April 2026

Luciana Livi builds her paintings from fragments, places she has passed through, memories, fleeting impressions, assembled into images with a strong sense of presence. At first, they seem restrained, almost quiet; then a deeper tension gradually emerges.

Luciana Livi is an Italian artist trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, where she graduated in painting, and at the Accademia Cappiello in Florence, where she specialized in painting restoration. She has worked and exhibited extensively in Italy and across Europe. Her work has been presented in galleries and institutions in cities such as Paris, Milan and Budapest, and has reached an international audience through collaborations with online platforms. Alongside her exhibitions, she has also developed projects in performance and publication.

She works primarily with oil and wax on canvas, developing surfaces that hold both depth and softness. This material approach allows for subtle transitions and layered textures, supporting the emotional tone of her work. Her background in restoration informs a precise attention to surface and to the construction of the image, where each layer contributes to the overall balance of the painting.

Luciana Livi conceives painting as a space that moves across ideas, visions and reality. Her work takes shape from memory, travel and sudden impressions, which she brings together into images charged with emotion and sensuality.

Her palette often leans toward cool tones, giving the paintings a muted, sometimes sombre atmosphere. Deep blues play a central role, structuring the image and carrying much of its intensity. In some works, this chromatic restraint introduces a denser, almost baroque quality, where light and shadow shape the scene as much as the subject itself.