Luciano Gasper - Marina

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. One of the most recurring themes in Luciano Gasper's work is the view of the Venetian lagoon, of which he created numerous versions to develop his personal exploration of color, light, and the perception of reality.

In his paintings, Luciano Gasper employs a remarkable process of synthesis that almost dissolves objects in the predominant light, brought on by the color that occupies almost the entire surface. Light/color also signifies a vast space in which objects are lost, shimmering in the atmosphere and rendered by the artist with a few brushstrokes. Thus, Gasper reduces all of reality to a pure perceptive exercise, formally resolved in the vast, dynamic, almost gestural distribution of color. The undeniable allure of a pictorial style that strikes a delicate and uncertain balance between figuration and pure abstraction remains constant.

Luciano Gasper was a multifaceted personality and a driving force in Treviso's cultural life. A painter, poet, and filmmaker, he also engaged his colleagues by creating the "Tavolozza" and initiating the "Grolla d'oro," which annually brought together artists, poets, and the media of Treviso for a prize that transcended not only the Veneto region but Italy as a whole. Renowned for his exhibitions, Gasper boasted, among many others, his friendship with Patty Pravo.

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