About

Luca Pizzaroni – Visual Artist

Walter Benjamin’s [The Arcades Project, 1927] interpretation of the concept of the flaneur as expressed by Baudelaire [Le Spleen de Paris, 1862] is that the contemporary flaneur is a figure that has nothing in common with the tourist, shopper, indefatigable walker, victim of the crowd, or instrument of capitalism. A flaneur takes pleasure in the haste and bustle of city streets, maneuvers through these crowded streets with the eye of an artist, yet is different from them.

Luca Pizzaroni well represents the postmodern flaneur. An active spectator of contemporary life and urban settings with an interest in the multiple facets of human disposition, he sets up house in the middle of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, amid the fugitive and infinite.His work has involved the creation of conceptually based sociopolitical sculptures,pictures and films which have been featured in museums,galleries and film festivals around the world.

He was co-author of Endcommercial: Reading the City, Hatje Cantz Publishers (2002), an analytical observation of recurring urban iconographies of over 60,000 images of New York and other cities. The book, containing more than 1000 images, has been widely acclaimed for creating a new visual vocabulary that describes the urban experience.

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Exhibitions

2012 
Bianco Trash – Fred Torres Collaborations, New York City, June 21 – July 27

2011 
Gone With the Wind – Fred Torres Collaborations, New York City , Jun. 9 – Sept. 2

2009 
Krada – Fred Torres Collaborations, New York City, Sept. 15 – Dec. 4

2003 
Store #1, American Apparel, Los Angeles, June 2003

2002 
Endcommercial, KunstWerke, KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, May 7 – July 7
Endcommercial, Storefront for Art + Architecture, New York City,July 18 – August 24
Endcommercial, Haus der Kunst, Munich, September 12 ­ October 20
Endcommercial, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, September 19 – October 4
Endcommercial,Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, December 5

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Group Exhibitions

2014
Konstellation, F5.6 gallery,Munich Sept.12 – Oct.12

2013
Scope International Art Show,New York City,March 6-10

2012 
The Texas Contemporary Art Fair ,Houston,Oct.18-Oct.21
Filed Under,Galleria Ugo Ferranti,Rome, Jan.28 – Feb.20

2011
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Dec. 1 – 4
NO COMMENT ,Occupy Wall Street, JP Morgan Building,New York City,Oct.8
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair,New York City,Mar. 3 – 6

2010 
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair,Miami,Dec. 1 – 4
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art,New York City,Sept.27

2009
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor,Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah-NY, Jul.12 – Oct.4

2007 
Performance Z-A, Storefront for Art + Architecture, New York City, Sept.21-Oct.16
Chinatowns, Storefront for Art + Architecture, New York City, Dec.11-Dec.22

2005
Vegas Super Nova, Selfridges Department Store, London,April 21 – May 20

1999
La Leggerezza, Instituto Galilei, Rome,April 16 – May 4

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Reviews / Interviews

The Wall Street Journal –
Gallery Space Goes to Waste, by Pia Catton, June 21 2012

The New Yorker –
Goings On About Town: Art, September 5 2011

Capital –
Luca dalle parti di Baudelaire by Beatrice Panerai, July 2011

Village Voice –
Best in Show: by Robert Shuster, Jun 29 2011

The New York Times –
All Dressed Up at the Katonah Museum of Art by Benjamin Genocchio, August 21 2009

The New York Times –
And You Thought Abercrombie & Fitch Was Pushing It? by Jaime Wolf, April 23 2006

The New York Times –
Art in Review-Endcommercial by Ken Johnson, August 23 2002

The New York Times – Reliving ‘Mean Streets’ In Open-Air Screenings by Edward Wong, July 16 2000

Il Giornale dell’Arte –
Lettera da New York by Lucio Pozzi, N.180 1999

The New York Times –
MAKING IT WORK Cinema Under the Stars Runs Into Some Storms by Anthony Ramirz, August 23 1998

The New York Times –
Smiles of a Summer Audience Italian Style by Jocelyn Craugh, August 10, 1997

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Contact Studio Pizzaroni for more information

studio [at] lucapizzaroni [dot] com

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