Luigi Carboni (Pesaro, Italy, 1957)

Born in 1957 in Pesaro, Luigi Carboni is a great pioneering artist, known for his exploration of a diverse range of materials, techniques, and media. From the outset, his work has encompassed painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. 

His first solo exhibition was held in 1983 at Galleria Spazia in Bologna, followed by many group and solo shows in private galleries, museums and institutions in Italy and abroad.

Since the 1990s, he has focused on painting, often monochromatic, while maintaining a distinctive formal autonomy rooted in his own artistic language. His work harmoniously blends abstraction and figuration, reality and artifice, minimalism and decoration within the same composition. 

From 1990 to 1998, he exhibited in several national and international galleries, including the Jack Shainman Gallery in Washington (USA); the Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam (Netherlands); the Galerij Verplancke-Van Bavel in Bruges (Belgium); the Schloss Galerie in Nordkirchen (Germany); and the Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan (Italy).

He has also participated in group exhibitions across Japan, Taiwan, Venezuela, Colombia, Greece, Belgium, and Germany, as well as throughout Italy. His works are included in the collections of the MAMBo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, the Museo del Novecento in Milan, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Comit of Banca Intesa, the Schaufler Foundation in Sindelfingen (Germany), the Museum Art.Plus in Donaueschingen (Germany), and many others.

The artist now teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and continues to live and work in Pesaro. 

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