Luca Buvoli

New York-based multimedia artist Luca Buvoli (b. 1963, Italy) has exhibited internationally for three decades. His work intertwines mythology, science, and ideology, with daily life and humor. Major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Guggenheim Museum in New York have acquired his work, and his animated films and videos have been screened internationally at the Lincoln Center, New York; MoMA, New York; and the British Library, London.
His expanded multimedia projects have been presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale, and other biennials in Asia and Europe.

His project for the 52nd International Venice Biennale, A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), elaborated on and questioned the prediction, “There will be a very beautiful day after tomorrow.” F. T. Marinetti tried to reassure his daughter with these hopeful words near the end of his life. The project explores aesthetic and well as political aspects of aeronautics. Words rendered in resin rise along the walls. Dynamic vector lines and an idealized, mechanized flying human shape surround the viewer.

Buvoli’s museum solo shows include the Phillips Collection, Washington DC (Digital Intersection, 2020), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2001), the M.I.T. List Center, Cambridge (2000), ICA in Philadelphia (2007), and gallery solo shows at Cristin Tierney gallery (2022), Susan Inglett gallery  (2009), Hyundai Gallery (2012), and John Weber Gallery (1995, 1997, 1999). Group shows include the Utopia Matters (Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin, 2010, pre-installation rendering shown on left), Venice Biennale (2007, image above, on right), Greater New York at P.S. 1 MoMA (2000), and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1997). Permanent public commissions are in New York, Houston, and in Seattle.
Luca Buvoli has been a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. He is the Director of the Mount Royal School of Art Multidisciplinary Master of Fine Arts Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Exhibitions

  • LUCA BUVOLI: DAY 12 - SPACEWALK

    May 19 - August 12, 2023

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Publications

  • DAY 12 - SPACEWALK

    published by Maus Contemporary
    may 2023
    with texts by Luca Buvoli and Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, Curator at the Apollo Collection, Smithsonian National Museum, Washington, D.C.
    diameter 8.1 inches (ca. 20,5 cm)

    hardcover leporello

    isbn: 978-0-9988397-3-8

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