Luciano Perolini (1944) - Il pettirosso

Luciano Perolini (Crema, 1944)

“ The Hummingbird ”

Oil on cardboard / period: 2019

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

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

His work is situated within 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, the brushstroke becomes dynamic, while the figure emerges as the protagonist of a human story. It is no coincidence that Luciano Perolini has often been defined as a painter capable of “capturing the soul” of his subjects, a quality that characterizes his best-known output, that of portraits.

The artist’s recent exhibition path testifies to a growing critical attention to his work. In May 2019, Perolini was the protagonist at Galleria ArTeatro in Crema, where he presented a meaningful selection of his production, consolidating the bond with the territory and with the local 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 exhibition, composed of twenty portraits of the poetess, 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 Salone della Cultura in Milan, bringing his painting into a culturally wide-ranging event. On this occasion, his figurative production dialogued with the public in a multidisciplinary context, confirming his ability to speak to a broad and diversified audience.

In April 2020, Perolini’s painting found a particularly meaningful placement at the Alda Merini House Foundation in Milan, a symbolic place 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 Salone della Cultura to the Alda Merini House Foundation—outline a coherent and growing path, placing Luciano Perolini among the most interesting contemporary figurative painters on the Lombard scene. His works, characterized by a vibrant brushstroke and a strong emotional component, confirm his belonging to contemporary post-impressionism, capable of reconciling tradition and modernity.

In an era dominated by artistic languages often conceptual, Perolini chooses the path of authentic, direct, humane painting. His art tells faces, stories, 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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Measurements: 43 x 33 cm in a wooden frame
Painting: 40 x 30 cm

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