Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).
Luca Trevisani explores the dimension of transience, fragility and metamorphosis of nature, isolating the perceptive-sensorial aspect in the human cognitive and experiential process. Playing between the three-dimensionality and two-dimensionality of bodies, he analyzes the structural properties of vision and the reduction of the real into perceived forms. The name of the project is based on the eponymous hotel in Palermo where the body of
Raymond Roussel was found, French writer and playwright among the fathers of “
pataphysics”, the science of imaginary constructions. Passionate defender of freedom of expression, Roussel is the symbol of the revolutionary power of the imagination, a concept present in the whole of Trevisani's artistic research.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at the Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid in February 2015.
Luca Trevisani (born 1979 in Verona) is a multidisciplinary artist whose research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition. In his works the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in an incessant investigation of matter and its narratives. Trevisani's research is that of an explorer: a freethinker who studies the most diverse and eclectic forms of plastic language with curiosity—but also with detachment – acting on them from the inside although never aspiring to possess them definitively, instead seeking to reveal (and, if possible, to modify) their microphysics. Above all, conserving absolute passion for the practical and social utility of his work and for the great questions that it cultivates: perhaps the real significance of someone who conducts artistic research with authority.
His works have been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout the world. He has published several books, and directed the science-fiction documentary film
Glaucocamaleo (2012). He has written texts and essays on the works of artists such as
Francesco Lo Savio,
Luca Vitone, Giovanni Anceschi, Gianni Colombo,
Liam Gillick, and Mark Manders. He teaches at IUAV in Venice, at the Free University of Bolzano, and at NABA in Milan.
