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Luca Boffi (Alberonero) is an artist and sometimes a farmer.

Born in Lodi (IT) in 1991, at the age of fifteen he started writing poems and experimenting with painting in relationship to the physical space through graffiti technique, playing with letters, shapes and colors.

In 2013 he graduated in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano where he had the chance to merge theory with experience and developed a transversal approach to a creation able to connect thoughts with different disciplines.
Alberonero started focusing on the study of color perception and on the research of a code that can minimize the visual language. For six years he intervened in the public space by painting sequences of colors ordered in a geometric grid, as instrument of investigation of the connection between
mathematics, poetry and sensation.

Later the interest of the artist moved towards the matter and the creation of devices made of poor materials which are linked to the building and agriculture’s world telling us about a supernatural reality. The practice of construction finds form in these elements, in installations born from a careful listening of the site, by the will to "be place", to erase boundaries between the self and the outside and participate in the space in a poetic way.

Luca Boffi realized installation projects, exhibitions and workshops in Italy and in different countries all around the world including France, Ukraine, Spain, Poland, Germany, Indonesia, United States and Saudi Arabia.

Luca Boffi (Alberonero) è artista e talvolta contadino.
Nasce a Lodi nel 1991, a quindici anni scrive poesie e sperimenta la pittura in relazione allo spazio fisico attraverso i graffiti, giocando con lettere, forme e colori.

Nel 2013 si laurea in Design di Interni al Politecnico di Milano dove fonde la teoria con l’esperienza e sviluppa un approccio trasversale alla creazione capace di connettere pensieri con discipline fra loro differenti.
Studia la percezione del colore e ricerca un codice che possa ridurre al minimo il linguaggio visivo. Per sei anni, nello spazio pubblico, dipinge solo sequenze di cromie ordinate attraverso una griglia geometrica, strumento di indagine del rapporto tra matematica, poetica e sensazione.

In seguito l’interesse dell’artista muove verso la materia e la costruzione di dispositivi composti di materiali poveri legati al mondo dell’edilizia e dell’agricoltura chiamati raccontare un mondo super-naturale. La pratica della costruzione trova forma nella natura, in installazioni nate dall’ascolto sensibile del sito di azione, dalla volontà di “essere luogo”, di annullare il confine tra il sé e il fuori e di partecipare allo spazio in senso poetico.

Luca Boffi ha realizzato progetti installativi, espositivi e workshop in Italia e in diversi Paesi del mondo tra cui, Francia, Ucraina, Spagna, Polonia, Germania, Indonesia, Stati Uniti e Arabia Saudita.

2023

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

Untitled — 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

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