Mattia De Luca Gallery

Mattia De Luca Gallery The gallery focuses on important works of the 20th century and world acclaimed contemporary artists.

Lucian Freud once remarked that he wanted his paint to “work as flesh.”Less often noted is how much time he required for...
30/04/2026

Lucian Freud once remarked that he wanted his paint to “work as flesh.”

Less often noted is how much time he required for that transformation—sitters would return for months, even years, until the initial sense of posing gave way to something more unguarded.

What emerges in his work is not just a likeness, but a record of duration: a quiet negotiation between artist and subject, where time itself becomes part of the composition.

Henri Matisse once turned limitation into one of the most radical breakthroughs in modern art.In the early 1940s, after ...
23/04/2026

Henri Matisse once turned limitation into one of the most radical breakthroughs in modern art.
In the early 1940s, after a major surgery left him largely bedridden, painting became physically exhausting.

Instead of stopping, he picked up a pair of scissors. From his bed, he began cutting shapes out of paper that assistants had painted in vivid colors. He called this process “drawing with scissors.”

What might have seemed like a compromise became a reinvention. These cut-outs—bold, fluid, and full of life—pushed his work into a new dimension, influencing generations of artists and redefining what it meant to “paint.”

In the late 1950s, Mark Rothko was commissioned to create a series of paintings for a luxury restaurant in New York. At ...
18/04/2026

In the late 1950s, Mark Rothko was commissioned to create a series of paintings for a luxury restaurant in New York. At first, he accepted. But as he visited the space and imagined his work surrounded by conversation, noise, and fine dining, something shifted. Rothko returned the money and kept the paintings.

He later admitted he had intended the works to feel almost oppressive—so intense they might ruin the appetite of the diners. When he realized they would instead become a backdrop, he walked away.
For Rothko, painting was never decoration. It was an encounter.

Max Ernst once claimed that painting is “the art of seeing what is invisible.” But his way of getting there was anything...
09/04/2026

Max Ernst once claimed that painting is “the art of seeing what is invisible.” But his way of getting there was anything but ordinary. In the 1920s, he developed a technique called frottage: placing paper over textured surfaces—wood grain, leaves, even floorboards—and rubbing graphite to reveal unexpected forms.

One day, staring at these chance patterns, he began to “discover” entire worlds hidden within them: forests turning into creatures, shadows becoming myths.
For Ernst, the artist wasn’t inventing, but uncovering—letting the subconscious speak through accidents. It’s a reminder that sometimes, the most powerful images aren’t created, but found.

Robert Ryman’s work invites us to look closely — not for what is depicted, but for what is present.In his white-on-white...
28/02/2026

Robert Ryman’s work invites us to look closely — not for what is depicted, but for what is present.
In his white-on-white paintings, texture, light, and the subtle gestures of the brush become the subject itself.

Each surface holds quiet variations, inviting the viewer to slow down, observe, and consider the act of painting as an experience in perception.

Simplicity, in Ryman’s hands, reveals a profound complexity.

Later in life, Giorgio de Chirico was accused of producing replicas of his own earlier paintings — sometimes even backda...
23/02/2026

Later in life, Giorgio de Chirico was accused of producing replicas of his own earlier paintings — sometimes even backdating them.

Whether provocation or strategy, he blurred the line between original, copy, and authorship.

A metaphysical joke taken very seriously.


𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒; 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 […] 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔...
19/02/2026

𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒; 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 […] 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 — 𝐼 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡, 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦.

On the birthday of Lucio Fontana, his words continue to remind us that his work was an act of construction, not destruction.

A thought that brings us back to the 2021 exhibition at our gallery, where his research engaged a dialogue with the works of Osvaldo Borsani, exploring gesture, material, and vision.


Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly were close friends and shared a similar understanding of painting as a space for concen...
13/02/2026

Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly were close friends and shared a similar understanding of painting as a space for concentration and clarity.

Kelly recalled that Martin spoke very little about her work, but when she did, her
words were always precise — much like her lines.

A friendship shaped by silence rather than explanation.

Ruth Asawa’s wire sculptures transform line into space.Through looping, weaving, and suspending thin wire, she creates d...
30/01/2026

Ruth Asawa’s wire sculptures transform line into space.
Through looping, weaving, and suspending thin wire, she creates delicate forms that shift with light and perspective.
Each piece is both fragile and meticulously constructed, inviting viewers to consider the relationship between material, space, and perception.
In Asawa’s work, technique is inseparable from experience: the act of looking becomes part of the sculpture itself.

Calder’s work transforms space into motion.With wire, metal, and color, he constructs delicate balances that seem weight...
24/01/2026

Calder’s work transforms space into motion.
With wire, metal, and color, he constructs delicate balances that seem weightless yet precise.
Each mobile or stabile is a negotiation between gravity and geometry, form and space, observation and imagination.
Looking is not passive — the work changes with perspective, presence and the light around it.

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Piazza Di Campitelli, 2
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00186

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Mercoledì 10:00 - 19:00
Giovedì 10:00 - 19:00
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