THE ARTIST AND HIS CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

Born Luciano Colossi, on December 11th 1973, in the city of Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. He had left his hometown in his childhood upon professional means conducted by his father and had moved to other cities in Brazil during his life.

Moreover, as a teenager, he had the opportunity to live in the United States with his family, during the period of 1986 to 1989, where his father achieved a Doctor Degree of Education at the George Washington University, Washington D.C.

There he visited museums, monuments and art galleries. At high school he had contact with the arts, though in a more conceptual perspective. He considers as a prime mark of his artistic talent awareness, when he returned to Brazil.

He finished his psychology college at The Federal University Of Parana – UFPR – and later graduated Master Of Psychology at The Federal University Of Santa Catarina – UFSC. His dedications, besides the Fine Arts, are also teaching and courses in the area of Psychology, Management, Human Development and creativity.

In Curitiba, one of the cities he had lived in Brazil and where he had attended college between 1994 to 1999, he also made contact with many artists, had participated in vernisages, had gone to a dramatic art course, among other experiences. His early important artistic outcomes had begun in that period. In 1996, he initiated his artistic career, which until today, runs parallel to his psychologist career.

With his art, he seeks to incite the imagination of the observer and humanize the utilization of computers in the visual arts. Due to his academic formation, he intends to unite, in a certain way, the Arts with Psychology – the both sides of the coin, the two faces…of his own self!

It constitutes as basis to the creative process, the “grafismo”, where it expresses sensations, sentiments and archetypes…which comes from his personal dwellings and intimate layers of the unconscious.

By these means, he decided to entitle, not exactly the technique, but his artistic handiworks as a whole, “Grafias” of the unconscious…due to the projective and archetypical nature of his creative expression. The result from these experiences has been printmaking, in many sizes, and oil and acrylic paintings.

He prefers not to name his engravings digital art, for they originate from drawings or paintings on paper and other surfaces, which after digitalization, and therefore layers, colours and textures are added…though without any intervention on the shape structure. In this process, he appropriates of photography images, by his own and by other artists handiworks, and by digital tools favourable to the aesthetics of his work.

In his paintings, he has develop a technique, predominantly gestural, searching for that same symbolism and “grafismo”…nevertheless, it originates by a reverse lane: he initiates filling the spaces with colours and textures and, gradually, he tacks on the shape structures.

Luciano has not been to a Fine Arts Academy, although since youth his curiosity towards the arts was inspired by the spindrift pages of encyclopaedias, history and mythology books, general knowledge and psychology. During high school, he experimented some creative craftsmanship through his art classes, but without any art theory or philosophy.

Perhaps as a result of many individual conflicts he had felt then, he had discovered a way to overflow his perceptions and feelings in as spontaneous and therapeutical manner, through “grafismo” on paper, using many types of utensils, from pencil to brush, from pen to finger…

He was inspired by the works of Miro, Kandisky, Picasso, and other artists…He is a great admirer of Van Gough and Bosch!

Between 2004 and 2007, he might have lessened his participations in events linked directly to the arts, nevertheless, he has not stopped to create a single minute, having accumulated thousands of “grafismos”, which could serve as basis to future artistic works.

He turns back to the public afresh, for they, through their gleaming look, could dream and encounter in the author’s handiwork, meanings that he himself is unaware of.

Artist Highlights

• Lives In:    Brasil
• ArtWanted.com Gallery:    Digital Painting
• Proficient Software:   Adobe Photoshop