Who is Luca Rossi

Luca Rossi
“Luca Rossi" è un nome di fantasia in cui idealmente convergono tutti i ruoli del sistema dell'arte: artista, critico, curatore, blogger e osservatore indipendente. È stato definito da Fabio Cavallucci “la personalità artistica più interessante d'Italia”. Dal 2009, “Luca Rossi”, collettivo aperto e figura controversa nel sistema artistico, cerca di stimolare quotidianamente un dibattito più critico nell'ambito dell'arte contemporanea, intesa come materia capace di rivestire un ruolo fondamentale nel nostro presente. Dalle sue riflessioni critiche, ampiamente diffuse, sue le definizioni di “Ikea evoluta”, “Sindrome del Giovane Indiana Jones” e “Nonni Genitori Foundation”, è nato un progetto artistico non convenzionale, che comprende anche attività di divulgazione e formazione, culminate nel 2016 con la creazione della Luca Rossi Art Academy & Coaching (documenta.live). Nel febbraio 2026, un Hidden Work di Luca Rossi è entrato nel nuovo percorso espositivo di Osteria Francescana di Massimo Bottura, segnando un ulteriore sviluppo del progetto e della ricerca intorno agli Hidden Works. Nel 2014 Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, in un’intervista, definì Luca Rossi la promessa futura dell'arte contemporanea, paragonandolo a ciò che Vanessa Beecroft avrebbe potuto essere negli anni Novanta. Alcuni “nodi critici” sviluppati nel corso degli anni da Luca Rossi sono entrati a far parte del linguaggio dell'arte italiana e hanno contribuito a cambiare la prospettiva e la visione di molte persone, dentro e fuori il settore. Nel 2014, la celebre critica d'arte Angela Vettese dichiarò che, dopo aver letto i testi di Luca Rossi, aveva deciso di non dedicarsi più alla pratica artistica, ma esclusivamente alla teoria.

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Now even IKEA sells art. But art isn't just decoration: to understand it, you need a basic understanding.

Now even IKEA sells art. But art isn't just decoration: to understand it, you need a basic understanding.

The news making the rounds these days is that IKEA, the low-cost furniture giant, has created a line of artwork to be sold in its stores. Back in 2009, I had already coined the term “Evolved IKEA” to describe a whole series of artworks th...
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A Day with Maurizio Cattelan (and a great interview by Luca Rossi): “Provocation? It’s no longer a risk”

A Day with Maurizio Cattelan (and a great interview by Luca Rossi): “Provocation? It’s no longer a risk”

Fifteen years later, Luca Rossi returns to interview Maurizio Cattelan. Back then, there was a retrospective at the Guggenheim; today, there is NIGHT at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the meantime, the art world has changed, the market has ch...
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On the French Riviera, there is a museum that is rewriting art history without resorting to slogans

On the French Riviera, there is a museum that is rewriting art history without resorting to slogans

There are museums that add works of art. And then there are museums that raise questions. The FAMM—Femmes Artistes Musée Mougins —definitely belongs to the second category. Founded from Christian Levett’s collection, the museum is the first in...
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Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works

Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works

The contemporary art market of the last twenty years is based on a huge lie. This is demonstrated by an obvious fact: many of the leading so-called contemporary art galleries must sell modern art—roughly from the time of Van Gogh through the 1970s—in...
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If this is the Venice Biennale, you might as well get lost in a glass of water

If this is the Venice Biennale, you might as well get lost in a glass of water

But why does the Venice Biennale always disappoint us and include a series of random oddities that the outside world views with a mixture of amazement and disgust? The controversy between fan bases took center stage at the Russian Pavilion, but what ...
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Art Italy is like the national soccer team: off the world stage. Problems and solutions

Art Italy is like the national soccer team: off the world stage. Problems and solutions

In the catalog of Exit, an exhibition on "young Italian art" curated by Francesco Bonami in 2002 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Massimiliano Gioni, now curator at the New Museum in New York, defines young Italian artists this way: "Italy ...
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Biennial without Italians...of course! But have we seen them, the Italians?

Biennial without Italians...of course! But have we seen them, the Italians?

Yes, there are, Italian artists: they are the ones helped and trained in Italy and who have been taking Italian Council grant funding for more than 10 years. And we also have their mentors who, with pats on the back and useless power plays, help them...
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Does Biennale 2026 have no Italians because the curatorial team inherited an unfinished list?

Does Biennale 2026 have no Italians because the curatorial team inherited an unfinished list?

I reached out via Instagram to Rory Tsapayi, a member of the Venice Biennale curatorial team who, since May 2025, has been overseeing the implementation of this year's international exhibition . After the death on May 10, 2025, of artistic director K...
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