Serena Lugli @ Rome Art Week

Serena Lugli

Serena Lugli has been working as an artist for over 50 years in Rome. The main themes on which he focuses are impermanence, memory, re-construction. The theme of detachment becomes the center of his reflections, detachment.

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MAIN EXHIBITIONS

1992 Rome - San Michele Museum

1993 Orvieto - Palazzo del Popolo

1994 Rome - Trifalco Gallery

1995 Rome - Eralov Gallery

1995 Rome - Arco Gallery in via Giulia

1996 Alghero - Cloister of San Francesco

1997 Rome - Maxentius for Art

2000 – 2003 Rome - Domus Romana

Following a series of exhibitions located by gallery 'IL LABORATORIO':

2011 Rome - In the appropriate spaces

2012 Rome - 20 works on paper

2013 Rome - Windmills and other stories

2014 Rome - All about nothing

2016 Rome - I am an artist

2017 Rome - The dress of the soul

2019 Rome - Anyway… fly

2020 Sermoneta - Festival of time

2022 Rome - The laboratory 'De rerum natura'

2023 Malta - Mad Art Week

2024 Tuscania - Palazzo Fani

Born and raised in Rome, graduated from the Art School in via Ripetta in Rome, she continues her studies at the painting course of the Academy of Fine Arts.In 1967 she won the second prize in the Tomba di Nerone competition. She works in the field of editorial illustration for Edipress in Milan and clothing decoration with fabric printing and screen printing.In 1979 she opens her own studio of artistic and consumer ceramics: she participates with her works in many events in Italy and abroad (Sant 'Egidio museum, San Michele museum, San Marco gallery located in via del Babbuino, arch of via Giulia , art fair of Bologna, ducal palace of Todi, art fair of Dusseldorf, exhibition of artistic craftsmanship of Munich, Spoleto festival) and exports her products to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and the USA.Since 2000 she has dedicated herself to the creation of jewels in silver, bronze, gold and semi-precious stones.Her artistic career has touched various themes and techniques without forgetting to communicate emotions. After the first mainly figurative works on paper and cardboard (various techniques), she often develops feminine themes (works on paper). Subsequently she undertook an initial research on urban decay with oils on wood ("urban passages").

She is passionate with new techniques and she gives birth to works of the "informal period" on wood (acrylics, cellulose pulp, canvases, threads) with material effects. In 2011, with "in the appropriate spaces" exhibition, she privileged a more direct message with figurative images (oil on panel) that tell stories and moods, while since 2012 with "works on paper" and "windmills and other stories" she enriches her techniques including narrative elements also developed in the subsequent "I am an artist" and "the dress of the soul".

In the following years her interest focuses in particular on "waste", seen as a horrid and fascinating traces of previous life, and also includes reworkings of photographic elements in her research, as in the personal exhibition "all about nothing" of 2016 and even more in the last one of 2019 "In spite of everything ... let's fly".

In the 2020's year works she tries to mend fragments of memories and life: while observing aspects of suffering and degradation, she always remains open to the possibility of positive change, because beauty is one of the few chances of human beings salvation.

In recent years he has approached printmaking techniques by experimenting with collography and monotypes.

The reflection continues in the following years, she imagines a destroyed nature that reassembles its fragments in a new unexpected scenery (De rerum natura 2022).