Lights, geometries, and colors; Luigi Profeta’s canvases are prism whose faces correspond to beams of light, which lead to the dreamlike world he created. A world where bright colors cross and collide with ordered geometric shapes, a perfect union between metaphysics and dada, where the return to order and the poetics of the useless object is sincere.
Luigi Profeta was born in Milan on 13 July 1969.
From an early age, he developed a natural propensity towards art, which, already at an early age, led him to try his hand at small wooden constructions. A reference more towards sculpture than towards painting and not surprisingly, his works are a perfect union between the two arts.
Driven towards other studies, Luigi graduated as an electrical engineer and inherited his father’s passion for cycling. His nature, that of an artist, is therefore obscured in favor of sport, which led him to compete in the amateur category.
After he stopped running around the age of eighteen, his passion, which then, according to the artist, is “more than passion is a mission”, comes out “strong and ferocious, like a scream of love.”
He, therefore, opens a knitwear workshop with his wife, where he begins to create his first drawings and paintings. After all, Luigi claims, “you become an artist because you are, not because you want to be.” There is no escaping the call of art and so, encouraged by the master Alfonso Madaluni, who encouraged him to continue, he decided to close the knitwear workshop and devote himself exclusively to art.
Influenced by artists such as Kandinsky, by his geometric and compositional rigor, his works are pictosculptures, carefully studied and meditated, which conceal the artist’s soul between shapes and colors. A cathartic soul seeks to externalize his emotions through collective psychology, that is, to speak not only of himself but of each of us. In fact, Luigi claims art “is the fruit of the thought of whoever makes it” and therefore, like someone who eats a fruit picked from a tree, so art must be able to create or feed a collective consciousness.
“Art is the fruit of the thought of whoever makes it,” says Luigi
Currently, Luigi Profeta lives and works in Cormano, where together with the loving help of his wife, he paints and manages the Click Art cultural center.
“You become an artist because you are, not because you want to be,” says Luigi
