Luca Pignatelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1962.
Son of a painter and sculptor, after attending courses at the Faculty of Architecture in Milan, he moved to New York.
Pignatelli approached the world of visual art through this discipline, focusing to the link between architecture, painting and the relation with time.
His work consists of a constant process of collection, recovery and iconographic reworking of history and art. In fact, he connects, superimposes and transforms a heterogeneous archive of collective and universal images, of ancient and contemporary eras, according to what critics defined as the "Theatre of memory". In 1997, the artist was one of the founders of the “Officina milanese” (Milan Workshop) and in 1998 he started using railcars as support for his paintings that represent the faces of Aphrodite rather than warplanes or city skylines. It is precisely with these works that Pignatelli became over the years one of the protagonists of the Nuova Pittura Italiana (New Italian Painting).
Since the 1980s, Pignatelli has consolidated his artistic career by exhibiting in Italy and abroad, in important museums, often with large-scale paintings and impressive site-specific interventions.
He currently lives and works in Milan.
