LUIGI PRESICCE

Luigi Presicce was born in Porto Cesareo (Lecce) in 1976, he lives and works in Florence. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, deliberately choosing not to discuss the thesis. His work was heavily influenced by his independent studies. In 2007 he participated in the Advanced Course of Visual Arts (CSAV) at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como with the American artist Joan Jonas. In 2008, as part of Artist in Residence, he participated in the workshop in Viafarini in Milan with the American artist Kim Jones. In Milan, in 2008 he founded (with Luca Francesconi and Valentina Suma) Brownmagazine and later Brown Project Space, for which he oversaw the programming. In 2011 with Giusy Checola and Salvatore Baldi he founded Archiviations in Lecce (exercises of investigation and discussion on the contemporary south). In 2012 he took part in Artists in Residence at MACRO, Rome, extending his invitation to nine other artists (Laboratory). Since 2010, with Luigi Negro, Emilio Fantin, Giancarlo Norese and Cesare Pietroiusti he is involved in the Lu Cafausu project that promotes The feast of the living (reflecting on death) and with which he was invited by AND AND AND to dOCUMENTA13, Kassel. Since 2016 he has been a founding member of the Lac o le Mon Foundation, San Cesario di Lecce. With Francesco Lauretta since 2017 he is part of the Scuola di Santa Rosa, a free drawing school based in Florence and New York. He was selected for the 2018 Studio Program at Artists Allianc inc, New York and TAD Residency at Monastero del Carmine, Bergamo and Lacasapark, Gardiner, NY in 2019. He conceived and curated in 2018 and 2019, Symposium of painting, at the Lac Foundation or le Mon, a residence / platform centered on Italian painting of the last 30 years. He curated Extemporanea-play in 2018, at Trebisonda Spazio for Contemporary Art, Perugia and Unique forms in the continuity of space, at Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo, in 2019 Facciatosta Records, by Enne Boi at Toast project space, Florence. He is currently engaged in a traveling training school called the Academy of immobility which is based on the development of memory, harmony and responsibility applied to performance.