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.
COSA VEDIAMO, solo show and art residency — Casa Design Hunter, Mexico City, Mexico
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
"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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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 6 — Busthyno, 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
Norme di paesaggio — Campidarte, Italy
Miscita — Farm Cultural Park, Favara, Italy
Black Circle Festival 5 — Uzhgorod, Ukraine
Defraggler, Sale Festival — Offida, Italy
“Viavai Project”, collective show — Casarano, Italy
By Stefano 36 toni — Enziteto Real Estate, Bari, Italy
Interior Design Project for Meridiani USA — Art Basel, Miami, USA
Garten, Art Kitchen — Milan, Italy
Ghetto, SNPS, Antrachite — Lyon, France
Creature Festival — Lodi, Italy
SNPS — Lodi, Italy
Interior Design Lab — Urban Center, Milan, Italy
Creature Festival — Lodi, Italy
Transforming the stone — workshop at Covarrubias marble, Guadalajara, Mexico
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
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
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
Colorare il paesaggio, performance and school workshop — Montecatini Terme, Italy
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