Nico Van Lucas - Nocturne

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

The informal art of artist Nico Van Lucas develops through a perceptive exercise. The artist begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to his highly personal sensibility. Thus, each composition almost definitively loses contact with phenomenal reality, translating into a pure transposition of matter and gesture. Indeed, Nico Van Lucas seeks to capture the impression of the reality around him, but this leads him to completely disintegrate form and translate his perception directly into pictorial gesture. In this painting, Nico Van Lucas seems to draw on a pictorial style typical of American Abstract Expressionism. The painter's gestures, expressed in broad strokes of dense pictorial matter, are controlled within a balanced and harmonious framework, albeit with the instinctive nature typical of action painting.

Nico Van Lucas is the artistic pseudonym of Milanese painter Luca Ghilardi, chosen to honor his son Nicolò and to keep him close to him in this adventure in the world of art and life. Born in Milan in the 1960s and moved to Bergamo, Ghilardi's painting is powerful and uncompromising. It can be classified as action painting. Ghilardi's style is centered on color, thrown and then modeled on the canvas. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself; it is an action that is neither conceived nor planned, in its methods and final effects.

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