Waiting for Angels

Waiting for Angels is a project that, while avoiding explicit religious iconography, operates in a space that combines contemporary art and archaic symbolism, aimed at evoking anticipation, dialogue with the invisible and hope, in a historical moment in which it seems increasingly lacking. In Jacob’s Dream, the central theme of the project, the ladder connects earth to heaven, with angels ascending and descending. The angel, a figure of mediation, recalls the biblical tradition but is reinterpreted in a universal key, a bearer of messages of transformation. The dream’s stone-pillow is not a mere object, but a symbol of the sacred and the immutable, a sign and place of manifestation of the divine.

Serasini intervenes, develops and reinterprets the biblical theme by proposing suspended islands, irregular copper and iron staircases unsuitable for humans, plastic witnesses awaiting some signal, lunar landscapes and proposals for outdoor installations, a final push for dialogue with the immeasurable, in the search for messages of peace and change that engage visitors with immersive and multimedia installations. Finally, by transforming pillow-stones into irregular polyhedra (corpura irregulata), the artist encourages deconstructing ideal perfection through form-emblems of the world’s complexity.

INSTALLATIONS/EXHIB
ARTWORKS

2025
Waiting for Angels
Eliopoli – Calambrone

These are the second and third medium-big ladders made of iron, placed on two stones, talking about hope…

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2025
EBER
September 4^th– October 26^th
Casa Studio Galleria CVM Venio
Larciano (PT)

The title of the exhibition, EBER, refers to the concept of “transit” or “passage”, a key word in the interpretation of the exhibition and the development of its theme.

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2025
GLI ASCOLTATORI
July 19^th– August 3^th
Pietrasanta (LU)

The exhibition Gli Ascoltatori (The Listeners), held inside the Sala delle Grasce in Pietrasanta, marks a new chapter in Luca Serasini’s ongoing evolutionary research. The exhibition is part of the project Waiting for Angels, where biblical references intertwine with contemporary allusions, creating moments of synesthetic reflection.

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2025
HIMMELSLEITER
April 12/May 26
La casa dell’Arte – Arles (Fr)

FestivalOff Arles
Dans cette exposition, Luca Serasini emprunte l’histoire biblique du Rêve de Jacob pour créer un cycle d’œuvres composé de dessins et de sculptures qui cherchent à apporter de l’espoir pour l’avenir.
Alors qu’il dort dans le désert, la tête posée sur une pierre, Jacob rêve d’un escalier infini que d’innombrables anges montent et descendent.

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2024
LE SCALE, GLI ASCOLTATORI
Spazio Serasini, Cecina
March 15-31^th

Exactly one year after the beginning of theMarconisti project, I present in this exhibition the new developments: starting from the Gabbro stone I have created 3 other sculptures and a wall sculpture entitled “Isola”. Other stones, this time from the river, smooth, flat, seemed perfect for the sculptures “the listeners” where, together with the ladders, the radio operators wait (or listen) to messages from the ether.

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2023
A DAY AS A MARCONISTA
Studio Elisi, Leghorn
October 28

Exactly one year after the beginning of theMarconisti project, I present in this exhibition the new developments: starting from the Gabbro stone I have created 3 other sculptures and a wall sculpture entitled “Isola”. Other stones, this time from the river, smooth, flat, seemed perfect for the sculptures “the listeners” where, together with the ladders, the radio operators wait (or listen) to messages from the ether.

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2023
GLI ASCOLTATORI
Auditorium Agorà Lucca – Over The Real Festival
October 22 – November 1^st

The installation “Gli Ascoltatori” (The Listeners), created by Luca Serasini and Marco Ricci Del Mastro, part of the project The Marconisti, is a contemporary model of how the various artistic disciplines transform themselves into a unicum able to represent both a historical tribute and a perspective vision of the present and future.

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2023
THE MARCONISTI / il Sogno 
Ambienti sonori, installazioni e danza

Centro Espositivo Comunale di Cecina
April 1^st – 16^th

In this project, consisting of graphic works, sound environments, and installations, the great value of Guglielmo Marconi is highlighted, a multifaceted Italian genius who contributed to modernizing the world, radically changing society in its human relations. His works represent a varied stratigraphy upon which the most modern satellite communication systems are based, eyes and ears capable of seeing and listening to the Universe in its most intimate secrets.

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2023
Gli ascoltatori (the Marconisti 360°)
sound installation

In the installation Gli Ascoltatori/Marconi 360 there is a clear reference to the figure of Guglielmo Marconi and to the biblical passage that tells of Jacob’s Dream, between a mutual alternation of concepts that investigate matter and spirit, Earth and Sky and the bond that unites not only visually these two areas of existence. If we think, for example, of the ladder dreamed of by Jacob…

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2023
Dial J for Jacob
interactive installation

Taking up, in an ironic sense, the title of a Hitchcock film, this interactive installation takes the visitor back to the time when the telephone was an object to move towards, and here becomes the narrator of Jacob’s earthly and spiritual events…

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