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LUCCIA LIGNAN (b.1980 Córdoba, Spain) Painter and Sculptress . Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Begins to draw and paint at the age of nine years old; She paints the portrait of her maternal grandmother "Small artwork on canvas", which she still maintains, (Private Collection). Her great-grandfather, a French musician, whose family was mostly composed of theater actors, was an essential influence for Luccia in that universe of her artistic creation, and he was married the first cousin of the famous Bullfighters José Gómez Ortega, better known as Joselito El Gallo and Rafael Gómez Ortega (Please continue reading here). Her elegant and reliable work, perhaps showing the legacy of her English great-great-grandmother. She goes to a painter's studio to receive private painting's class and finishes her education at The Faculty of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría at Seville University. Luccia Lignan not only offers a creative panoramic aspect in painting, her artistic activity includes the cultivation of sculpture as well. Her first sculpture works show us an admirable irresistible personality, and her colourist talent in her polychromatic works, woodcarvings or bronzes. Her painting and sculpture are inseparable. The feminine polychromatic woodcarvings and bronzes, run in paralell and are tied up to her pictorial creations. Has a conceptual background in a group exhibition at Córdoba County Council in 1994 and her second at Alfaro Gallery Seville in 1996. Next was a group exhibition "Young Painting", Tarragona City Council 1997. The figurative painting "Future in Balance", is shown at Maestro Mateo Prize - Caja Sur 1998 - Honorable Mention. She has coloured silhouettes and ironic homages to Boccioni at Córdoba County Council in 1998 (Baroque Patio). Travels to Italy, London, and rest of Europe. Later, individual and group exhibitions at Seville Architects College in 1999, (Echoes of Gutierrez Solana's work), Palais des Congrès, Aix-en-Provence (France), International Show des Seigneurs de L'Art 99.
Latest Exhibitions: Exhibition Galerie Zero Arts, December-January 2006-2007, Stuttgart (Germany) Exhibition February-March 2007 in Hamburg, Marziart International Galerie (Germany) Form London, March 2007, London (United Kingdom) Festival of Drawing, April-May 2007, AVA, London (United Kingdom) Form London, February-March 2008, London (United Kingdom) Upcoming Exhibition New York, London and FIACT Contemporary Portraits, 2008 - Project Currently
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