Some artists spend a good part of their lives unaware of the innate creativity they carry within themselves.
Until suddenly, following very personal mechanisms, a spark goes off in them that finally brings to the surface that great ability that had remained hidden and latent until then, conveyed by strong emotions and feelings.
This mechanism also involved Luca Donati in his later years.
Born in Ascona (CH) on May 21, 1961, he discovered his artistic nature a few years ago. From his work he has borrowed some techniques and materials that, handled with dexterity and originality, have led to the creation of unique works, “earthly” works, to use a definition dear to him.
Central to Luca Donati, as for others, is the vision of the artist as a “craftsman”, as someone who creates with his skilled hands a work, dictated by his own emotions and born to arouse in the spectator just as many emotions, albeit different and multiple.
He loves to define his art as “raw”, in the sense of barely hinted at, sketched, sometimes imperfect, never defined in details, shapes and colours, rigorously.
In this way the viewer can fill those lines, those barely sketched and vague colours, with his own imagination and feel different emotions in front of the work.
Often one is amazed by the delicacy and lightness that his paintings convey, in contrast with the large dimensions and the heaviness of the materials used.
But all these apparent contrasts bring us back to the conception of life itself according to the artist:
“a life that is rawly emotional, sweetly brutal and lovingly imperfect”.
