Luca Gastaldo: emotional landscapes and romantic painting
In Luca Gastaldo’s works, the undisputed protagonist is always the sky—an immense, illuminated backdrop against which a world of shadows takes shape. Elements appear in backlight, emerging from darkness and creating atmospheres charged with emotion and inner tension.
The art of Luca Gastaldo
Gastaldo employs a wide range of techniques and materials—bitumen, rags, acrylics, brushes, chalks—allowing the initial idea to evolve in an almost uncontrollable and instinctive way. His paintings do not depict incorporeal silhouettes, but rather perceptible volumes that, although hidden in darkness, remain expressive, mobile, and pulsating.
These forms resemble thoughts when they crowd the mind, unsettling yet alive. Gastaldo does not paint trees, mountains, or rivers; instead, he paints emotions, memories, and desires. His is an authentically romantic painting, imbued with a sense of anticipated tragedy, fear of abandonment, and a profound attraction to natural phenomena—powerful and still mysterious, much like the emotions that have always shaped human existence.
Who is Luca Gastaldo
Luca Gastaldo was born in Milan in 1983. He graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, and since 2006 he has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy and abroad.
Among his most significant exhibitions are La casa di questa mia sera (2008) and La luce e il buio at Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi, Milan; Tra suggestioni romantiche e vibrazioni contemporanee at the European Parliament in Brussels (2010); La luce e il suo contrario at Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Busto Arsizio (2011); and the three-artist exhibition Lucenergia at Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE, Varese (2012).
In recent years, Gastaldo has held numerous solo exhibitions across Italy and has regularly participated in major art fairs. Among his most recent shows are Comunque a casa at Galleria Rubin, Milan (2017), and Sinestesie at Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE, Varese (2018).
