*1933, Syracusa, IT. Lives in Rome, IT.

Lucia di Luciano is a pivotal figure of the Italian artistic movement Arte Programmata. Together with her late husband Giovanni Pizzo, di Luciano launched two distinct artistic endeavors in Rome in the early 1960s: Gruppo 63 and Operativo R. As a post-war innovative and utopian art movement, Arte Programmata wanted to redefine the relationship between individuality and collectivity through the help of new technologies. After this seminal period, di Luciano continued her artistic endeavor and started experimenting little by little with color theory in the 1970’s through the 1990’s before fully reintroducing it into her work in the 2000’s. Since 2016, at the age of 86, she has broken free from her previous rigor and expanded her research in a new, free and uninhibited manner. These new paintings are as liberated and deconstructed as they are synonymous with a broad history of abstraction.