Il lavoro di Lucchesi è da sempre animato dal tentativo di tradurre visivamente le riflessioni scaturite dall’indagine della psiche, degli stati emotivi del singolo individuo in relazione con sè stesso, con gli altri e con ciò che lo circonda.
Attraverso metafore visive attinte da linguaggi universali che nascono da una ricerca artistica e spirituale, le emozioni prendono forma e colore.
Uno dei suoi codici di riferimento è la terra intesa come sottosuolo, come metafora di una stratificazione emotiva dei soggetti osservati: terra come ambiente interiore e radici come essenza del soggetto.
Nelle sculture il basamento non è un supporto ma un ambiente, talvolta ricavato dall’asportazione di volumi da monoliti, talvolta costruito come una scatola, un box, un “teatro interiore”.
I monoliti di ferro pieno, marmo, cemento o ceramica accolgono piccole figure in bronzo che assumono posture metaforiche, atteggiamenti o intenzioni, una manifestazione esterna del proprio mondo interiore.
Scelte diverse, ma con un unicum che ne è il medium ispiratore: la ricerca di un sé interiore che, quando lo si ricerca per forza lo si trova e lo si fa emergere. E Lucchesi, insieme alle sue creazioni, va alla ricerca di luoghi evocativi che all’incedere della ricerca possono imprimere un’accelerazione e uno sfondo scenografico appropriato e coerente con la ricerca stessa.
Un filo, per il segno grafico o per la pittura, è un confine tra il sé e l’esterno con tutto quello che è libero anche di contagiarsi e collegarsi su piani diversi come accade negli “Ambienti interiori” nei quali ricorre il filo che segna il passaggio. E i luoghi entro cui far prendere vitalità alle sue opere sono scelti con cura. Luoghi dallo spessore evocativo e carico di fascino, pennellato dalla natura o dalla mano dell’uomo non importa, purché abbia quella forza suggestiva di inglobare la nuova arte, la nuova interpretazione del sentire umano.
Lucchesi’s work has always been driven by the attempt to visually translate the reflections emerging from the exploration of the psyche—the emotional states of the individual in relation to himself, others, and his surroundings.
Through visual metaphors drawn from universal languages born of an artistic and spiritual quest, emotions take on form and color.
One of his key references is the earth understood as the subterranean—a metaphor for the emotional layering of the observed subjects: earth as an inner environment and roots as the essence of the individual.
In his sculptures, the base is not merely a support but an environment—sometimes carved out from monoliths, sometimes constructed like a box, an “inner theater.”
Solid monoliths of iron, marble, concrete, or ceramic house small bronze figures that assume metaphorical postures, attitudes, or intentions—a visible manifestation of their inner world.
These are different choices, yet united by one inspiring medium: the search for an inner self that, when pursued with determination, is found and brought to the surface. Lucchesi, along with his creations, seeks evocative places that, as his exploration unfolds, provide both momentum and a scenographic backdrop that is appropriate and coherent with his artistic inquiry.
A thread—whether in graphic design or painting—serves as a boundary between the self and the outside, allowing for the free contamination and connection across different planes, as seen in the “Interior Environments” where the thread marks the transition. The spaces chosen to breathe life into his works are selected with care: places rich in evocative depth and charm, whether painted by nature or crafted by human hands, as long as they possess that compelling power to encompass new art, a new interpretation of human emotion.
1985-1999
Solo exhibition in Pisa at Chiesa di San Galgano; in Bologna at Galleria Pinucci; in Firenze at Arte-logica. He participates with Opus, an animated film, in the Castelli Animati International Competition in Roma, and places among the finalists
2000-2002
Installation of Opus in Pisa at the Arsenali Medicei, at the Terme dei Bagni di Nerone, and at the former Giardino dei Semplici; in Siena at the Abbazia di San Galgano; and in Angers, France, at the Abbey of Roncerey
2005
Solo exhibition Gradienti at SpaziodinamicoPME in Pisa – Installation of the public sculpture Girantide for the Arte in Circolo initiative in Pisa
2006
Group exhibition Accueil curated by Aldo Iori, Roma – Group exhibition E, lo vedi, è la vita at SpaziodinamicoPME in Pisa
2007
Solo exhibition Gradienti curated by Aldo Iori, Trebisonda space in Perugia – Group exhibition Segni d’autore in Bologna – Group exhibition Ex Voto for S. Carlo di Spoleto in Foligno at Spazio Fantuazzi
2012
Group exhibition Libro d’autore at SMS Gallery Gennai, Pisa – Solo exhibition I-tempo at I Pazzi Gallery, Pisa
2013
Imagine, installation in Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, Pisa – Artist residency Ifitry in Morocco
2014
Ifitry exhibition, artists between Italy and Morocco, SMS exhibition center in Pisa – Biennale for contemporary art in Casablanca, Morocco
2016
Exhibition of a work at the Museo della Follia, Castello Ursino, Catania, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi – Exhibition Ambienti Interiori Pradeep Napoli – Exhibition Misericordiae at the Diocesan Museum of Foligno – Apoptosi exhibition at the Teatro Sant’Andrea in Pisa
2017
Solo exhibition Ambienti Interiori Palazzo Tupputi, Bisceglie – Museo della Follia, Museo Muse di Salò curated by Vittorio Sgarbi – Gradienti 3D installation of sculptures on the promenade of Viareggio – Convivio group exhibition at Palazzo Palmieri in Trani – Solo exhibition Ambienti Interiori at Ismi Gallery in Viareggio – Territoria group exhibition at Il Lepre Gallery in Piacenza – Solo exhibition Ambienti Interiori at Il Lepre Gallery in Piacenza – Exhibition From Goya to Maradona at the Museo della Follia in Naples, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
2018
Winner of the Marchionni Prize, Magmma Museum, Villacidro – Group exhibition Milleduecentosessantuno, Zetaeffe Gallery, Firenze – Installation of the sculpture Markandeya for ArtInsolite in Lajatico – Installation of Gradienti 3D sculptures in Lajatico for the Teatro del Silenzio by Andrea Bocelli – Solo exhibition Nel nome del segno at Ismi Gallery in Viareggio – Installation Opus 1998-2018 at Teatro Olimpia in Vecchiano, Pisa – Group exhibition Ambienti Interiori, Galerie 102 for Art Week in Berlin – Installation Vite sospese in the Chiesa Sant’Anna for the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa – Group exhibition Portami via at Il Lepre Gallery in Piacenza – Exhibition Museo della Follia in Lucca curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
2019
Group exhibition at Museo Cà La Ghironda in Bologna – Group exhibition at Palazzo Collegio Raffaello in Urbino – Artist residency Ifitry in Morocco – R-Evolution Eneganart Prize at the Istituto degli Innocenti in Firenze, third place – Solo exhibition In the box at Mai social maison in Pisa curated by Nicolas Ballario
2020
Installation Lo sconquasso for the day of remembrance, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa – Winner of the Al-TIBA9 International Annual Exhibition competition in Barcelona, Spain – Group exhibition Distanza zero for Artinsolite in Lajatico – Group exhibition Renaissances, School of Arts of Nanjing University, China – Winner of the international competition for public art I Pilastri di Novoli for the Cultural Center of Novoli in Firenze
2021
Installation of the Monument to President of the Republic Sandro Pertini in Savona, winner of the international competition – Exhibition In levare at Gulli Gallery in Savona curated by Carlo Alberto Arzelà – Exhibition The story of the monument to Sandro Pertini at the Fortezza Priamar in Savona, curated by Carlo Alberto Arzelà – Monument Elogio alla scrittura, installation of a public sculpture for Parco Tabucchi in Vecchiano, Pisa – Exhibition Out there at Scalo Lambrate in Milano, Ipercubo Gallery, curated by Nicolas Ballario and illuminated by Davide Groppi
2022
Creation of an equestrian sculpture for the Castelfalfi golf club in Firenze – Artist residency Ifitry in Morocco – Winner of the international competition Be Natural, we wild for the Selvatica Festival in Biella – Winner of the Combat Prize in Livorno – Exhibition at Il Lepre Gallery in Piacenza – Solo exhibition Offline at PQV Gallery at Palazzo Fodri in Cremona – Winner of the Arte Prize from Mondadori magazine with the work Cherofobia exhibiting the sculpture at Palazzo Reale in Milano – Exhibition Fatal Error at the Pinacoteca in Volterra curated by Nicolas Ballario
2023
Installation Signum in the church of Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa, curated by Nicolas Martino – Installation of the sculpture Operae for the Fuorisalone 2023 at Statale in Milano – Solo exhibition curated by Sandra Bozzarelli at the Still Gallery in Milano – Exhibition Beyond this world at Ipercubo Gallery in Milano – Exhibition Houston, che sfortuna at Studio Rossetti Gallery in Genova curated by Alessandra Redaelli – Installation of the sculpture Operae in Piazza De Ferrari, in front of Palazzo Ducale in Genova
2024
Exhibition at Studio Rossetti Gallery in the space of De Jorio Design in Swiss – Exhibition Motus at Salamon Fine Art Gallery in Milano – Exhibition Motus at Palazzo Ferrero in Biella for the Festival Selvatica curated by Lorenza Salamon – Group exhibition Eighth-century Anniversary of the Leaning Tower of Pisa at the Opera del Duomo in Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, curated by Stefano Renzoni.
At the Museo Il Cassero in Montevarchi “Your mind is your home. Your mind is your prison.
Curated by Nicolas Ballario.”
2025
Exhibition at Studio Rossetti Gallery – Genova
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