Lucia Mignosa - Bagnante su surf

Water is the primordial element, the dominant theme, the source of life par excellence, the medium to which we entrust the transport of dreams, desires, and the most secret pulsions. Here, the human world surfaces from the textures of a strong, exuberant physicality; with the study of the figure immersed in water, the Collection is born, perceived with an undefined touch that referred its definition to the passing time, among people, under the sun, in the reflection of the water.

The artist Lucia Mignosa, known artistically as Luminisa,

during the classical studies that the ‘60s imposed, thanks to the eccentric teachings of a history of art professor, I knew and fell in love with that colorful world of beauty to which I have remained faithful and fascinated for life. But only later, when I randomly found a creative magazine from that era, experienced as a window into the artistic world, following their guidance, I began to create awe-inspiring objects that ranged from art, to fashion, to objects, in perpetual search and attempt to express with art enthusiasm and joy as a hymn to life. The explosion of pleasure in creating, experimenting, and persevering in seeking the utmost expression of beauty pushed me, despite family and work commitments and the difficulties that the ‘70s promised to a woman, to attend the studios of well-known Sicilian masters of that era, to learn as much technique and experience as possible, without ever missing that one weekly appointment that made me travel 70 km to reach him. And it is by allowing myself to be inspired and carried by their excellence that I refine my views and perfect the technique, reaching my expressive splendor in Luminisa, my artistic name, a life dedicated to the playful world of cheerfulness, freshness, and luminosity that materializes in the extreme representation of plays in water and bodies suspended in time, in a playful preamble to joy. A sensibility that today I express in painting, sculpture, and engravings, which have a very precise purpose: to translate into wide visions of play and moments of meditation and ecstasy a meaningful reality that has always resided within me. Strong, bright tones, gymnastic apparatus, circles in the water, promote the concept of my emotions, carriers of a playful, artistic sense of my eternal, serene mood.”}