Through May 31, 2026 MARCOROSSI artecontemporanea presents Urbs ex arboribus, Luca Pancrazzi ’s first solo exhibition in the gallery spaces in Pietrasanta. The project brings together a nucleus of recent works that document some of the main directions of the artist’s research. These include the well-known “whites” made on raw canvas, large papers constructed through chromatic stratifications and essential signs, as well as a series of small-format works on canvas and paper that open up further possibilities for experimentation.
The title of the exhibition, taken from Latin, can be translated as “a city from trees” and introduces a reflection that overturns the usual perspective on the relationship between man and the environment. In the vision proposed by Pancrazzi, it is the plants that turn the gaze toward the city, even to the point of expressing an implicit judgment on the modes of contemporary living. Trees, in such a reading, do not disappear from urban space but remain waiting, ready to reappropriate a territory marked by the artificial presence of architecture.
Landscape is configured as the central theme of the exhibition, understood as a border zone between natural dimension and anthropic construction. Visual perception, memory and a critical reflection on the present are intertwined in this sphere. The works on paper show a more rapid progression and a greater openness to the unexpected, welcoming chromatic variations and deviations of the sign that make visible the energy of the creative process. The monochromes on canvas, in contrast, develop from a minimal rule and shape a growth that recalls organic and nonlinear dynamics.
“I like to think that we are observed and tolerated by the plants that surround us and that they are the only hope, not only symbolic, of finding a more natural way to existence,” the artist writes.
Luca Pancrazzi’s research has developed over time through different languages, including painting, sculpture, photography and installation, maintaining a constant dialogue between techniques and fields of expression. After training in Florence, the artist worked in New York with Sol LeWitt and in Rome with Alighiero Boetti. His exhibition career includes participations in prominent institutional contexts, including the 1997 Venice Biennale, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion in 1998, the Quadriennale in Rome in 2008, the PAC in Milan in 2004, and Palazzo Te in Mantua in 2016.
 |
| Pietrasanta, Luca Pancrazzi investigates the relationship between city and nature in "Urbs ex arboribus" |
Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.
IT
FR
DE
ES
CN