Luciano Perolini (1944) - In spiaggia

Luciano Perolini (Crema, 1944)

“In spiaggia”

Oil on panel / period 1990/2000

“A light step on the water, as if the sea could remember the shape of dreams”

Contemporary post-impressionist painter
Artwork published in the art magazine Artexia
Author featured in national exhibitions and Italian art galleries

In the panorama of contemporary Italian figurative painting, Luciano Perolini stands out as an original and coherent figure, capable of uniting narrative sensitivity with chromatic research in a poetics that can be traced to a modern post-impressionism, where reality is filtered through emotion, memory, and light. A Cremonese painter, Perolini has gradually built a personal language that distinguishes itself by the expressive force of portraits and by a direct, immediate painting, rich in chromatic vibrations and psychological depth.

His work fits into that figurative tradition which, from Impressionism, evolves toward a more emotional and subjective painting. His works do not merely represent; they interpret: color becomes living matter, brushstrokes become dynamic, while the figure emerges as the protagonist of a human story. It is no accident that Luciano Perolini has often been described as a painter capable of “capturing the soul” of his subjects, a quality that characterizes his best-known body of work, the portraits.

Recent exhibition activity by the artist testifies to a growing critical attention to his work. In May 2019, Perolini was featured at the Galleria ArTeatro in Crema, where he presented a significant selection of his production, solidifying the bond with the local territory and audience. A few weeks later, in June 2019, Milan welcomed the artist at Kasa dei Libri, with the exhibition Dentro quella mordente nostalgia, dedicated to Alda Merini. The show, composed of twenty portraits of the poet, represented an intense and personal homage to Merini, realized with intimate and vibrant painting.

The following year marks another step in the artist’s exhibition path. In January 2020, Perolini participated in the Milano Culture Salon, bringing his painting into a culturally significant event. On this occasion, his figurative production dialogued with the public in a multidisciplinary context, confirming his ability to speak to a broad and diverse audience.

In April 2020, Perolini’s painting found a particularly meaningful placement at the Alda Merini House Foundation in Milan, a symbolic site deeply linked to the poet. This exhibition represents a moment of synthesis of his artistic research, where the portrait becomes memory and testimony, transforming into a bridge between art and poetry.

These exhibitions—from Galleria ArTeatro to Kasa dei Libri, from the Culture Salon to the Alda Merini House Foundation—outline a coherent and upward-moving path, placing Luciano Perolini among the most interesting contemporary figurative painters on the Lombard scene. His works, characterized by vibrant brushwork and a strong emotional component, affirm his belonging to contemporary post-impressionism, capable of combining tradition and modernity.

In an era dominated by often conceptual artistic languages, Perolini chooses the path of authentic, direct, humane painting. His art tells stories, faces, memories. And it is precisely in this narrative and luminous dimension that his most authentic signature is found: that of a painter of time and memory, capable of transforming reality into painting emotion.

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Dimensions: 50 x 30 cm framed in wood
Panel: 45 x 25 cm

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