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Luca Boffi (Alberonero), 1991, works as an artist and farmer. He studies visual perception, landscape transformations, processes of transition and reciprocity between living beings, between the natural and the artificial. He interprets his surroundings in order to restore them from the posture and gesture of his own practice.

In 2013, he graduated in Interior Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He embarked on an artistic journey in which the community and social dimensions are central, creating works mainly in public space.

He is the winner in 2022 of the Italian Council (11th edition) with the publishing project "Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro"; He is the winner in 2023 of the “L’Italia è un desiderio. Open call sul paesaggio contemporaneo”.

Luca Boffi has exhibited and collaborated with realities and institutions including: Fabrica (Treviso, IT), Santa Paula Art Museum (Santa Paula, CA, USA), Domaine de Boisbuchet (Lessac, FR), La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Modena e Contemporanea (Rome, IT), La Triennale di Milano (Milan, IT). He has worked in several European capitals and in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Cuba, Estonia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, USA and other countries around the world.

Luca Boffi (Alberonero), 1991, lavora come artista e contadino. Studia la percezione visiva, le trasformazioni del paesaggio, i processi di transizione e reciprocità tra gli esseri viventi, tra il naturale e l’artificiale. Interpreta il circostante per restituirlo a partire dalla postura e dal gesto della propria pratica.

Nel 2013 si laurea in Design di Interni al Politecnico di Milano. Intraprende un percorso artistico nel quale risultano centrali la dimensione comunitaria e sociale, realizzando opere prevalentemente nello spazio pubblico.

È vincitore nel 2022 dell’Italian Council (XI edizione) con il progetto editoriale “Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro; è vincitore nel 2023 de “L’Italia è un desiderio. Open call sul paesaggio contemporaneo”.

Luca Boffi ha esposto e collaborato con realtà e istituzioni  tra cui: Fabrica (Treviso, IT), Santa Paula Art Museum (Santa Paula, CA, USA), Domaine de Boisbuchet (Lessac, FR), La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Modena e Contemporanea (Roma, IT), La Triennale di Milano (Milano, IT). Ha lavorato in diverse capitali europee e in Arabia Saudita, Argentina, Estonia, Indonesia, Libano, Messico, Stati Uniti e altri Paesi nel mondo.

2023

Panorama imaginaire — temporary installation for the 14e edition of Planches Contact festival, Deauville, Normandie, France

Campo Mantra — performance of book presentation Caro Campo. Workbook for Lodi Basèll at Platea Projects, Lodi, Italia

"Non perdere il sentiero per via degli alberi" with Hisayuki Amae, Clara Cebrián, Luigi Pensa, Costanza Starrabba curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli, LOFT - Light On Future Topics, Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, Italia

Pane per Pane — performance and residency for A dimora at La Montagna Fiorentina, Londa, Italia

"Di là dal paesaggio" show with Jacopo Valentini curated by Vittorio Parisi, Forte Santa Tecla, Sanremo, Italia

219 Paros, Greece

Tornare a casa — Montanaso Lombardo, Lodi, Italia

L'amicizia è come un fiore va concimata with Edoardo Caimi (Tybet) — perfomance, Risveglio di primavera, Pontremoli, Italia

"Mezz'aria. La strana apertura della ricerca sonora" — collective show curated by NUB and Gabriele Tosi, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italia

White Airism — temporary installation for Uniqlo, Milano Design Week, Milano, Italia

"Cosa vediamo"solo show and art residency, Casa Design Hunter, Mexico City, Mexico

2022

DOCCIA, with Jacopo Valentini Forte di Santa Tecla, Sanremo, Italia

"18 mattoni di fango disposti a torre", (OFF)SITE - The bond between Man and Nature" Plateforme, Parigi, Francia

Pic-Nic — Copper Leg Art Residency, Vaskajala, Estonia

"Campo Terra" — Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Art City Bologna, Bologna, Italia

"12 Artists of Tomorrow" collective show — Mucciaccia Contemporary, Roma, Italia

"Penso Pianura" — Platea Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, Italia

2021

"Attitude", collective show, curated byGianGuido Grassi — Palazzo Blu, Pisa, Italy

"When urban attitudes become contemporary art", collective show, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi — 21Gallery, Treviso, Italy

Tornare alle cose, performance — Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, Italy

Paléo dei campi abbandonati, LOAM – Land Open Art Museum Residency — Monte Ginezzo, Cortona, Italy

Ara, SPIn OfF — Officine Fratti, Perugia, Italy

“Campo Libero. Un posto dove provare”, solo show, Festivalfilosofia — Consorzio Creativo, Modena, Italy

Miacromia — Galleria Varsi, Rome, Italy

“Riabitare il mondo”, curated by Giovanni Caudo and Martina Pietropaoli — Quodlibet Studio, Rome, Italy

“141 - Un secolo di disegno in Italia”, collective show, curated by Maura Pozzati and Claudio Musso — Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, Italy

2020

Campo — Campogalliano, Italy

Pila, TraMe - Tracce di Memoria — Rieti, Italy

Monte Immagine, C.U.R.A. Residency, in collaboration with STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO — Vallo di Nera, Italy

Wunderkammer, “macchina” delle meraviglie, curated by Francesca Borea and Giulia Pederzini, Festivalfilosofia — Modena, Italy

2019

48 toni, Escalier de Bercy Paris, France

Duna, “Gharfa”, curated by STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Molo, Fabric — Fall River, USA

Salse di Nirano, performative act— Riserva naturale delle Salse di Nirano, Fiorano Modenese, Italy

Dispositivi di visione, Sussulti — Palomonte, Italy

“Visioni Urbane”, collective show, Palazzo Giangrandi — Faenza, Italy

“Supernaturale”, solo show — Galleria Varsi, Rome, Italy

“Abstracta, da Balla alla Street Art”, collective show — Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, Italy

“A.D.N.”, collective show — Galerie Slika, Lyon, France

“Organised Chaos”, collective show — Magma Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2018

Invisibile, Idolove — Dolo, Italy

The time of rice, Noa Noa Art residency — Bali, Indonesia

86 + 73, Viavai Project, Periferica — Mazara del Vallo, Italy

Prisma — Alcamo, Italy

“Abstracta, da Balla alla Street Art”, collective show — Museo Gagliardi, Noto, Italy

Supercivita, CVTà Street Fest — Civitacampomarano, Italy

Marea, curated by Cufù, Ru_a — Pozzallo, Italy

“#Untitled?”, collective show — Galerie Slika, Lyon, France

“Avanzamento Progressivo”, Altrove — Milan, Italy

“Architettura morbida and Contemporary tapestry”, collective show, curated by I-MESH, Salone del Mobile — Milan, Italy

“Emplazamiento, luz, color, espacio” collective show, Espacio Cavallero — Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017

“All About Prints”, collective show — Galerie Slika, Lyon, France

Villa 26, residencia Barrio Puente — Buenos Aires, Argentina

5x5, Biennale del Muro Dipinto — Dozza, Italy

“Blurring the Lines”, collective show — Plastic Murs Gallery, Valencia, Spain

"Altro Paesaggio", solo show, in collaboration with Sirio Vanelli — Ritmo Gallery, Catania, Italy

“As far as the eye can see”, solo show — Magma Gallery, Bologna, Italy

Arno, Welcome to Pisa — Pisa, Italy

Artena, LiveArtena — Artena, Italy

“I Novantiani. Giovinezza della pittura”, collective show, curated by Camillo Langone — Castello di Castellabate, Salerno, Italy

Würfl 120 toni, Kulturweg — Pfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany

70 toni, “Abstract / Realism”, collective show — Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

43 toni, Cheap Festival — Bologna, Italy

Soaring, Farm Cultural Park — Favara, Italy

Kinu, Salone del Mobile — Milan, Italy

“Parata Pirata”, curated by Gramm publishing — Venice, Italy

“Abstractism”, collective show — Galleria Varsi, Rome, Italy

“Livelli”, collective show — Galleria Varsi, Rome, Italy

2016

“Dal caso nasce cosa”, a project by Libri Finti Clandestini — Libreria Galleria Demetra, Milan, Italy

“The great man of tomorrow” — De Angeli MM1, Milan, Italy

“S/visto”, curated by Giacomo Spazio — Santeria Social Club, Milan, Italy

Due in Uno, Verso Sud — Corato, Italy

Rosso Verona, curated by ZOE — Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy

“Left the right”, collective show — Lodi, Italy

Tre Colli, Altrove Festival — Catanzaro, Italy

“Abstractism, Humanize Landscape”, collective show, Altrove Festival — Catanzaro, Italy

Distance, Cufú — Castrofilippo, Italy

Big City Life, Biennale di Venezia — Venice, Italy

City after the City, curated by Nina Bassoli, XXI Triennale Esposizione Internazionale — Milan, Italy

“Toujours Béton”, collective show — Galerie Slika, Lyon, France

Mañana, Poliniza Dos — Valencia, Spain

Paradiso Inclinato”, collective show, curated by Luca Tomìo — Ex Dogana, Rome, Italy

Voltio, in collaboration with 108 and CT — Madrid, Spain

2015

Basketball Court — Ex Dogana, Rome, Italy

Light up 135 toni, Agorinasce — Casapesenna, Italy

“Dicotomia”, solo show, in collaboration with Martina Merlini, Atipografia — Arzignano, Italy

Two crossing planes 73 toni, PaGe — Genova, Italy

Largo castello, Visione Periferica — Mosciano Sant’Angelo, Italy

64 toni, V9 Gallery — Warsaw, Poland

Black Circle Festival 6Busthyno, Ukraine

Caseddu Vacante, Viavai Project — Salento, Italy

Porco Benvenuto, Altrove Festival — Catanzaro, Italy

A Carlo Alberto, Big City Life — Rome, Italy

“Viavai Project”, collective show — Don Gallery, Milan, Italy

2014

Norme di paesaggio — Campidarte, Italy

Miscita — Farm Cultural Park, Favara, Italy

Black Circle Festival 5Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Defraggler, Sale Festival — Offida, Italy

“Viavai Project”, collective show — Casarano, Italy

By Stefano 36 toni — Enziteto Real Estate, Bari, Italy

2013

Interior Design Project for Meridiani USA — Art Basel, Miami, USA

Garten, Art Kitchen — Milan, Italy

Ghetto, SNPS, Antrachite — Lyon, France

2012

Creature Festival — Lodi, Italy

SNPS — Lodi, Italy

Interior Design Lab — Urban Center, Milan, Italy

2011

Creature Festival — Lodi, Italy

Lectures and workshops
2023

Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro —  book launch at Feira Gráfica in Vaga, São Miguel, Azores

Terra Immaginaria — workshop and performance at Univesidad de Las Artes (ISA) with Taller Chullima, Havana, Cuba

Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro —  book launch for the Italian culture week in Cuba with the italian embassy at the Taller Chullima, Havana, Cuba

Campo Abierto —  lecture for Seminario Arte, Lugar, Territorio y Acción (SALTA), Univesitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro — book launch at Domain de Boisbuchet with Vittorio Parisi, Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, Lessac, France

Fieno tempo libero — performance for Paesaggi abitanti workshop presso Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy

Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro — book launch at Arte Sella The Contemporary Mountain with Carlos Casas, Edoardo Tresoldi, Giacomo Bianchi, Piergiorgio Caserini, Borgo Valsugana, Italy

Fioritura umana — lecture for Archaism at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy

Campo Spazio Giovani — workshop organised for Villa Bi, Campogalliano, Italy

Panino — poetry reading for Mur Mur, Milano, Italy

Spazio colore — lecture for Quel che viene per restare at Spazio Giallo, Roma, Italy

Transforming the stone — workshop at Covarrubias marble, Guadalajara, Mexico

2022

In-Land. How to become a place — workshop at Domain de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France

Falesia — workshop with Reperti Urbani, Pesaro, Italy

Pensare Paesaggio, talk with Andrea Staid and Piergiorgio Caserini — Platea, Lodi, Italy

2021

Le direzioni dell’arte: Codici e visioni per una grammatica immaginativa, talk with Luca Mikolajczak e Paolo Nardon, SPIn OfF — Officine Fratti, Perugia, Italy

Praticare il paesaggio, talk, Mosto Festival — Poderi dal Nespoli, Nespoli, Italy

2019

Teoria della percezione e psicologia della forma, lecture, curated by Claudio Musso — Accademia G. Carrara, Bergamo, Italy

Supernaturale, narrare l’invisibile, lecture for “Dottorato di Paesaggi della Città Contemporanea”, curated by Giovanni Caudo and Martina Pietropaoli — Università RomaTRE, Rome, Italy

NABA Wall, workshop for university students — NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Rome, Italy

2018

Colorare il paesaggio, performance and school workshop — Montecatini Terme, Italy

2016

The relationship between space and colors: front, background and border, lecture and workshop — SOU-architecture school, Farm Cultural Park, Favara, Italy

Oltre il decoro: arte pubblica e rigenerazione umana, lecture — Chiostro Palazzo Gioia, Corato, Italy

Landscape abstraction and experimentation of sensations, workshop for student of agronomy school — Batroun, Lebanon

I colori sono infiniti, workshop for university students — NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Milan, Italy