Herald St presents a two-part exhibition of works by Lucia Di Luciano, taking place across the gallery’s premises in Bethnal Green and Bloomsbury.
Marking the nonagenarian artist’s debut solo outing in the United Kingdom, it will comprise a historic survey tracing the evolution of her seven-decade career, alongside a vibrant presentation of recent paintings and collages. The exhibition follows Di Luciano’s inclusion in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani in 2022, as well as last year’s Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern, building on a renewed recognition of the artist’s seminal position within Italy’s twentieth-century vanguard.
Di Luciano started her career at the postwar moment when the emotion-laden and autographic gestures of art informel were beginning to be overthrown by Pop art, Neo-Dada, and an optical, kinetic, and scientific path to abstraction. In the 1960s, she and her late husband Giovanni Pizzo were key figures in the Europe- and Latin America-centric progression towards an objective form of art, which in Italy culminated with Arte Programmata. This prevailing movement comprised a multitude of artist groups, whose research into the mechanisms of light, perception, and dynamism informed their output. In 1963, the couple were among the founders of the collective Gruppo 63, and following its dissolution later the same year they set up Operativo ‘r’. Both communities followed a strictly rationalist process, adhering to theoretical principles such as Gestalt analyses of vision and Bertrand Russell’s writings on mathematical logic, combined with a careful precision to the craftsmanship of their work.
Herald St | 2 Herald St, London, E2 6JT
Museum St | 43 Museum St, London, WC1A 1LY
| Duration | 23 September 2025 - 08 November 2025 |
| Times | Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Herald Street |
| Address | 2 Herald Street, London, E2 6JT |
| Contact | 442071682566 / mail@heraldst.com / http://www.heraldst.com/ |