The Latitudes of Art 2026. Gianni Lucchesi on display at the Galata Museum.
From 3 July to 6 September 2026, Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa.
The seventh edition of the international biennial “Le Latitudini dell’Arte” opens at the Galata Museo del Mare; since 2013, this event has brought together Italian contemporary art and leading European cultural institutions. Having previously hosted Finland, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, the 2026 edition turns the spotlight on France, centring on the theme ‘Arts, Nomadism, Languages’.
The exhibition, curated by Virginia Monteverde with a critical introduction by Viana Conti, brings together ten Italian and ten French artists to reflect on identity, mobility and the transformation of contemporary artistic languages. The exhibition pays tribute to the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his idea of nomadism as a practice of freedom. Here, art breaks down geographical and cultural boundaries, inviting the public to become nomads amidst tactile intensities and visual drifts. A journey of discovery through artistic languages that flow freely and defiantly across the two shores of the Mediterranean. The exhibition follows the Museum’s opening hours.
For Italy, the Rossetti Gallery presents Gianni Lucchesi
Lucchesi’s work has always been driven by an attempt to visually translate the reflections arising from an exploration of the psyche and the emotional states of the individual in relation to themselves, to others and to their surroundings. Through visual metaphors drawn from universal languages that stem from artistic and spiritual exploration, emotions take on form and colour.
One of his key themes is the earth, understood as the subsoil, as a metaphor for the emotional stratification of the subjects he observes. The earth as an inner environment and roots as the essence of the subject. True to a narrative economy that goes hand in hand with chromatic minimalism, Lucchesi chooses the stag to act as a counterpoint to the human figure. Majestic, elusive, imbued with magical symbolism of rebirth linked to the periodic regrowth of its antlers and, precisely by virtue of those antlers, a conduit of communication between earth and sky, the stag embodies, for the artist, pure and unspoilt instinct. That which knows.
Whilst man loses himself in his illusion of happiness, clinging to an impossible survival, the animal gathers the herd around him and seeks a way to escape.
A line, whether in graphic art or painting, is a boundary between the self and the outside world, with everything it contains free to intermingle and connect on different levels, as happens in the ‘Inner Environments’, in which the line that marks the transition recurs. The spaces in which his works are brought to life are chosen with care.
Artists taking part in the Biennale
For Italy: Antonella Cinelli, Mirko Credito, Maria Cristina Galli, Daniele Galliano, Gianni Lucchesi, Riccarda Montenero, Giuseppe Negro, Manuel Portioli, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Marilena Vita
For France: Nicolas Bertoux, Aurélien Boussin, Laurence Chellali, Ana Isabel Freitas, Lory Ginedumont, Jean-Pierre Giovanelli, Rémy Hysbergue, Véronique Massenet, Amélie Peace, Sabrina Rattè
Official link: https://www.museidigenova.it/it/le-latitudini-dellarte-2026
THE ARTIST
Gianni Lucchesi was born in Pisa in 1965.
He began his artistic career in 1985 and has participated in numerous important exhibitions and events both nationally and internationally, such as the Berlin Art Fair and the Casablanca Contemporary Art Biennale in Morocco.
In 2006, he received the Cisdac International Prize for Contemporary Art in Rome and, a few years later, exhibited at the first International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Casablanca.
In 2016, he began collaborating with Vittorio Sgarbi, exhibiting works at the Museo della Follia in Palermo.
He works for the Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico, collaborating with the artistic director Alberto Bartalini and under the supervision of Carlo Alberto Arzelà.
He has won numerous contemporary art competitions and created major public artworks, such as:
the monument to Sandro Pertini in Savona, the sculpture *Omaggio alla scrittura* in Parco dei Tabucchi (Vecchiano, Pisa) and the installation *Operae*, which was first exhibited at the 2023 Fuori Salone in Milan and subsequently in Piazza De Ferrari in Genoa, in collaboration with Rossetti Arte Contemporanea.
