Born in Marina di Pisa (Italy) in 1971.
Luca creates land art installations and multidisciplinary projects that explore themes related to science, technology and human interaction with the universe. He began his work with oil painting in 1996, and since 2003, by integrating land art, sculpture, multimedia installations and interactive technology, his research has occupied a border territory between art, science and spirituality, with a strong focus on the dialogue between heaven and earth, myth and contemporary life.
Land art installations—located in open spaces, woodland edges, and transitional areas between urban and natural environments—act as liminal devices: structures that guide the gaze, set the pace, and generate experiences of transition.
In the essence of the intervention, he treats the landscape as a system of relationships (social, biological, geological, symbolic).
Finally, his interest in technology (sensors, Arduino, Raspberry) is not an add-on, but a coherent extension of his research: translating invisible phenomena (proximity, field, distance, rhythm) into immersive experiences that amplify sensory perception and the symbolic dimension.
ACTIVE PROJECTS
The Progetto Costellazioni (2013) is one of the most mature lines of his poetics, which for years has explored the relationship between nature, light, memory and perception. Luca sees the firmament as a space for projecting human destinies, the celestial map becomes a symbolic and installation device that allows bringing the sky onto the earth, or bringing the human body back into the sky, creating a reconnection between sensory experience and cosmological dimension. The operation is never naturalistic nor astronomical in a scientific sense: rather, the constellation is an archetype, a symbolic diagram, a grid of existential orientation.
Waiting for Angels is the most recent project (2023) which, while avoiding explicit religious iconography, moves in a territory that combines contemporary art and archaic symbolism, aimed at evoking anticipation, dialogue with the invisible and hope, at a historical moment when it seems increasingly lacking. In this series of works, Luca intervenes, develop and reinterpret the biblical theme of Jacob’s Dream by proposing suspended islands, irregular copper and iron stairs unsuitable for humans, plastic figures awaiting some signal, lunar landscapes and suggestions for outdoor installations, a final push for dialogue with the immeasurable, in search of messages of peace and change that engage visitors with immersive and multimedia installations.
Surreal, on the other hand, is the cycle of le nuvole, le sedie (Clouds and Chairs), mainly graphic works of literary (Aristophanes, Bulgakov) and theatrical (Ionesco) inspiration.
In all three cycles/projects there is, as the lowest common denominator, an upward vision, towards the immense that is above and beyond the human being, but which helps to complete it, giving it meaning.
Artist education
Exhibition (selection)
Permanent installations
Land art
Indoor
Video
Video installations
Articles, Lectures & WorkshopS
1985-1990 – Technical High School in Telecommunications
2010-2011 Graphics for publishing at IED – Florence
2025
GLI ASCOLTATORI – Pietrasanta >
HIMMELSLEITER – La casa dell’Arte – Arles (Fr) – >
2023
The Marconisti/il Sogno – interactions, installations and soundscape – with Marco Ricci del Mastro and Francesca Cavallini – Centro Espositivo Comunale, Cecina (IT) >
2018
Khàos/Order/Dispose, installazioni, interazioni e alabastri – exhib – Luca Serasini and Alessandro Marzetti – Palazzo dei Priori, Volterra (IT) >
Window Project winner: 2012-2018 – Group show – Gazelli Art House, London (UK)
2016
Ma se il vicolo fosse cieco? – solo exhib. Accademia Libera Natura e Cultura. Querceto (IT)
Dietrofront – group exhib – Volterra (IT) >
2012 La dinamica dietro l’idea – solo exhib – Spazio Espositivo Sopra le Logge. Pisa – (IT)
2011 Contaminazioni, group exhib – Centro futuramente, Pontedera (IT)
2010
Around me, il gesto, l’occhio, la parola – group exhib, Montegemoli (IT)
Seven rooms in Pietrasanta – group exhib, Irenakos art gallery, Pietrasanta (IT)
2023 – URSA MAJOR (minor Est!) – Lungau (Austria) >
2022 – Frange d’Interferenza, in ascolto del cosmo – Cecina (IT) >
2019 – Les etoiles binaires – Ifitry/Essaouira (Morocco) >
2017 – Come Iadi tra le Pleiadi – Civitella d’Agnano (IT) >
2016 – Pegaso, 10 storie per 10 stelle – Montegemoli (IT) >
2016 – Alcor & Mizar – (Holmfirth – UK) >
2015 – Orione, il grande cacciatore – Crespina (IT) >
2013 – Costellazione toro – Montegemoli (IT) >
2011 – Tori terrestri – Montegemoli (IT) >
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INSTALLATION
2017 – Große Wagen – Weimar (Germany) >
2009 – Waiting for your own kite… – Montegemoli (IT)
2022 – Ego-VIRGO prologo 2 – sweeps (5’14”) >
2020 – Ego-VIRGO prologo (1′) >
2021 – La Banda (7 episodes, about 70′) >
2016 – Pegaso, 10 storie per 10 stelle (6’53”) >
2015 – Orione, il grande cacciatore (11’21”) >
2013 – Costellazione toro (4’45”) >
2013 – Ponce & cigarettes (22’43”) >
2012 – Tori e aquiloni, evoluzioni, trasformazione (1’55”) >
2007 – il passaggio
2007 – Oh mio Prometeo (18’13”) >
2007 – i 7 dormienti (19’39”) >
2007 – Attese/Dinamiche/Genesi (7’31”) >
2006 – Le baiser/il bacio (4’52”) >
2023 – Frange d’interferenza (Ego-VIRGO) – multichannel – Cascina (IT)
2020 – in Lucem, le parole/ i suoni/i corpi/l’idea – interactive – Volterra (IT) >
2014 – Scuola e resistenza a Ortonovo (IT) >
2013 – Crisi/Krisis – Marina di Pisa – interactive (IT) >
2013 – Pisa guarda Pisa (IT)
2012 – Con le tue mani, tra foce e pineta – interactive (IT) >
2009 – See U on Mars – interactive (IT) >
2007 – For your eyes only (IT) >
2007 – Libeccio – multichannel (IT) >
2005 – Esodo/ Naufragio – multichannel (IT)
2004 – Balle di mare – multichannel (IT)
ARTICLES
- “L’arte per l’Homo Spaciens: la Space Art” – Cosmo 2050 n°59, Marzo 2025
- “La land art porta il cosmo nell’arte contemporanea” – Cosmo 2050 n°55, November 2024
LECTURES ABOUT MY WORKS
- “Il Progetto Costellazioni: installazioni di land art per la conoscenza del cielo” – Convegno Nazionale UAI di Divulgazione dell’Astronomia, 2-3 novembre 2024
- “Le mie interazioni – INSTALLAZIONI, ELETTRONICA ED ALTRE STORIE” – 11 November 2021. Accademia Alma Artis – Accademia di Belle Arti Pisa – Nuove Tecnologie dell’Arte, Pisa (LECTURE)
- “Per Aspera ad Astra (through hardships to the stars)” – UNMASKED DIGIFEST08 AND ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2021 8th Edition of DUT’s Faculty of Arts and Design Digital Festival – 19-21 October – SouthAfrica (ONLINE LECTURE)
- “Art-Science collaborations / EPO telecom” – LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, 26th July 2021 – (ONLINE LECTURE)
LECTURES and WORKSHOPS ABOUT VIDEOART AND VIDEOINSTALLATIONS
“La videoarte e le videoinstallazioni” for FEDIC (Federazione Italiana dei Cineclub – Italian Federation of Short Movies Clubs)
- 2024 – 20° Stage nazionale FEDIC di formazione e approfondimento- “Pillole di cinema” – 29 agosto – 2 settembre, Calci (PI)
- 2018 – 16° Stage nazionale FEDIC – “Anche questo è fare Cinema” – 13-17 settembre, Calci (PI)
- 2014 “Festa del Cinema Corto” – 28-30 giugno, Ortonovo e Villafranca Lunigiana
LECTURES ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN
“Scrivere un’immagine: grafica e infografica per un flusso comprensibile dell’informazione ” – Corso di didattica interna per allievi PhD di Medicina Traslazionale – Sant’Anna, Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa – Istituto di Scienze della Vita e Scuola Superiore di Catania. (LECTURE)
28/10/2024, 18/04/2019 and 5/6/2018
WORKSHOPS WITH SCHOOLS
“GIOCALARTE, A SCUOLA CON GLI ARTISTI”
Promozione della didattica dell’arte contemporanea all’interno delle scuole: un’arte reale che nasce in un contatto diretto con gli artisti, 45 classi, 1000 bambini e 22 artisti
(Promotion of contemporary art teaching in schools: real art that is born in direct contact with artists, 45 classes, 1000 children and 22 artists)
2008, 2009 and 2013