Luca Monterastelli was born in Forlimpopoli in 1983. He studied at Fine Art Brera Academy of Milan. The artist develops works on the propaganda function of sculpture and architecture. Through the study of all the forms that make up the urban geography, his work re-proposes parallel realities in which events follow each other and where the final installation is the memory. In these traces and stories, we see the direct influences of all those celebratory systems studied and reinvented by the artist so that these worlds become a mirror of our vision.
Solo exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work:
“Storia di un onest’uomo”, Fondazione del Monte, a cura di A.Rabottini, Bologna, 2024
“Sticks and Stones, a Prologue”, Keteleer gallery, Anversa, 2023
“Weightless”, Galleria Lia Rumma, Napoli, 2021
“Old Masters”, Keteleer gallery, Anversa, 2020
“To Build a Fire”, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano, 2017
"How To Make a Hero", Deweer Gallery, Otegem, 2017
Tra le collettive:
"Premio Termoli LXIII", Museo MACTE, a cura di C.Perrella, Termoli, 2023
"Horst: state of play", by Stand van Zanken (Dorzoon architets + Theo de Meyer), ASIAT, Bruxelles, 2023
"Afterimage", MAXXI Museum, L'Aquila, a cura di B. Pietromarchi e A. Rabottini, 2022
"Prospettiva Arte Contemporanea", Gallerie d'Italia, Milano, 2019
"Black Hole",GAMec, a cura di L.Giusti e S. Fumagalli, Bergamo, 2018
"Ennesima", La Triennale, a cura di V. de Bellis, Milano, 2015
"Codice Italia", 56 Biennale Arte, a cura di V. Trione, Venezia, 2015
He also took part at the following residencies: Triangle France a Marsiglia (2011) and Residénces Secondaire al Centre d’arte contemporaine Parc Saint Léger, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Program, Helsinki (2014); guest artist at Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (2013); Residénces secondaires, Centre d’art contemporain Parc Saint Léger, Pougues- les-eaux (2012); “Solid Void” Progetto Diogene, Turin (2011); Residency Suddenly, Beauchery-Saint-Martin (2011); “Triangle France” La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille (2011). In 2015 he participated at 56th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venice Biennal.
Since 2019 he has been part of the Celine art project. His research is published in the monograph "Pardon Façade" edited by A. Rabottini, with texts by M. Germann and M. Guidelli-Guidi, published by Lenz Press, Milan, 2023. In2023 it was included in "Strata arte italiana dal 2000" edited by V. De Bellis and A. Rabottini, published by Lenz Press with the support of Italian Council X.
The jury of the second edition of the Matteo Visconti di Modrone Prize at MIART 2024 unanimously awards the artist Luca Monterastelli (Forlimpopoli, 1983), recognising the value of his many years of research in sculptural practice. The jury awards the prize in the conviction that the confrontation with a material
On the occasion of Arte Fiera Bologna and the inauguration of Luca Monterastelli’s installation at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, the National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries has awarded the gallery owner Lia Rumma, one of the most authoritative figures on the Italian art scene, who has
Luca Monterastelli is delighted to present his upcoming individual installation, ‘Storia di un onest’uomo’, which will take place in Bologna at the Oratorio San Filippo Neri. The exhibition is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and is realised thanks to the collaboration with the Lia Rumma Gallery and the Fondazione del Monte.
The Termoli Prize, which has been in existence since 1955, is among the longest-running in the Italian art scene; successive editions have created a rich collection of artworks entrusted to the MACTE Foundation since 2019. Following the success of the 62nd edition, the first one organized by the MACTE Museum
Luca Monterastelli takes part in a large international group show featuring works from the MAXXI Collection and new commissions. An exhibition conceived as a visual poem in relation to the Museum’s rooms, composed of intuitive and spontaneous associations between the works, the images, the building’s architecture and its history. Afterimage
Marina Abramović, Vanessa Beecroft, Paolo Icaro, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Luca Monterastelli, Ugo Mulas, Thomas Ruff, Wael Shawky, Haim Steinbach, Ettore Spalletti, Gian Maria Tosatti, Tobias Zielony, Gilberto Zorio
