Leonardo Lucchi - Towards Damascus

He studied at the Art Institute for Ceramics in Faenza and graduated in 1970. At the beginning of his artistic career he participated in several group exhibitions and held his first solo exhibitions.

In 1989 he was invited to create a large " Risen Christ" and a " Via Crucis" for the Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Singapore; while for the Republic of San Marino he created two legal tender gold coins to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.

For his city, Cesena, he created bronze groups such as monuments to Don Cesare Carlo Baronio , to San Pio da Pietrelcina , to Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the San Giovanni Battista at the city's cathedral.

In 1991, he was invited by the Italian Academy of Applied Arts in London, exhibiting around thirty of his works. That same year, he inaugurated the renovated exhibition spaces in a former fishmonger's shop in Cesena with an exhibition. In June 2002, he inaugurated his new studio in the city center, in Piazza del Popolo, and in October he exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Sibony.

In 2003 he created the Monument to the Fallen of the Second World War located at the Terni Cemetery, in 2004 he exhibited again in Paris and in 2005 in various Swiss cities.

The bronze Monument to the Mothers and Widows of the Fallen and Missing in War dates back to 2007 and was inaugurated on 20 October of that year in the Franco Agosto urban park in Forlì.

Throughout his career, he has exhibited in various Italian cities, including Modena, Rome, Venice, Florence, Ferrara, Milan, Bologna, Palermo, and Bari; and abroad, including London, Paris, Basel, and Ghent. His works are permanently on display at galleries in Italy, France, and Great Britain.

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