Luigi Ontani

 
Luigi Ontani (b. 1943) holds a singular position in the contemporary art landscape. Dealing since the beginning of the 1970s with such notions and topics as identity and sexuality, the sacred and the profane, the hybrid and the kitsch, and Occidental and Oriental cultures, he creates a corpus of art works that are qualified by their polymorphous aspect and their denial of boundaries. Whether in his photographic portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante, Pinocchio, or San Sebastian, in his ceramic or papier-mâché sculptures, in his large paintings, or in his early video works, he affects a new reading of art history, postmodernism, and appropriation strategies.

See also Emanuele Trevi & Giovanna Silva: Ontani in Bali.
 
Luigi Ontani - CoacerVolubilEllittico
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.


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