ABOUT ME
Luigi has carried out numerous researches. His main fields of research are the amphitheatres, the civic sense of the sacred, the links between art and faith, the ancient cultural identities, the comparison with the classical sculpture, the obsessive research on the sea, the tapes of the dreamer archaeologist (Giorgio Buchner).
He has recently investigated the plaster casts of Antonio Canova and is following new editorial projects whose theme is the cultural and social action mediated by photography.
Among the many volumes published, in different languages and distributed worldwide, we mention the project on the Roman Forum, L'Ora Incerta, Electaphoto (2014); The Buchner Boxes (2014); Le Danzatrici della Villa dei Papiri (2015); Diario Mitico, la Collezione Farnese (2017); Tazza Farnese (2018); Canova quattro tempi (2020), all published by 5 Continents Editions and Volti di Roma alla Centrale Montemartini for Silvana Editoriale (2019), Sing Sing, Pompeii's body, 5 Continents Editions (2020), I Confratelli, 5 Continents Editions (2020)
He has published over 22 photographic books of personal research and has created prestigious photographic campaigns for institutions and museums. The best known: Farnese Collection of Classical Sculptures (2001-2010); Pompeian Painting (2009); Herculaneum Three Centuries of Discovery (2009); The Villa of the Papyri (2009); The Palatine Museum (2014);
Still in progress is the photographic campaign on ancient Campanian sculpture at the Archaeological Museum of Naples and an authorial research on Campi Flegrei.
He has collaborated with publishers such as Franco Maria Ricci, Mondadori Electa, Federico Motta Editore, 5 Continents Editions, Treccani.
Among the cultural institutions in which he exhibited are: Archaeological Museum of Naples; Capitoline Museums of Rome; Museo Campano di Capua; Galleria San Fedele, Milan; MADRE Museum, Naples; Palazzo dell'EUR, Rome; Reggia di Caserta; MACRO, Rome; Galerie Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels; MIAFAIR Milan; Postermostra, Lisbon, Kranj, Slovenia; Gallery of Fine Art Uzbekistan, MART Rovereto, Michetti Foundation Francavilla al mare
Have written about his projects: Stefano De Caro, Claudio Parisi Presicce Cesare de Seta, Philippe Daverio, Vittorio Sgarbi, Manlio Sgalambro, Roberto Mutti, Giovanni Fiorentino, Davide Vargas,
João Vilela Gelardo, Paolo Giulierini, Eduardo Cycelin, Nunzio Giustozzi.
He is a finalist in the 73rd Michetti Prize, 2022, with the project MATRES, the soul of this
land is the old mud
Artribune magazine named him best photographer of the year 2020
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