Gian Piero Gasparini – LDV

[…] but yet, as Bernard of Chartres said, we are dwarves raised on the shoulders of giants and it is for this reason that good contemporary art often does not ignore its debt to them: the latest production of Gian Piero Gasparini is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci and looks to the hidden harmonies that bind art, sum techne, to scientific observation and mathematical and geometric investigation. LDV - this is the name of the project, where the three letters are the acronym of Leonardo da Vinci - it is a tribute to the greats who made history (of art), among which we find not only the "universal genius", but also those who understood art as something close to scientific research.
LDV it consists of a series of portraits made by the chiefs - Pollaiolo, Antonello of Messina, Raffaello, … –, reinterpreted not only in the light of contemporaneity, but also with an eye to speculative links, scientific, mathematical and geometric with visual art. First of all, the tributes in LDV a Leigh Bowery e Chuck Close, which are not yet classics but could become so: the first a performer considered until not too long ago as a outsider for its quick-change taste, the other who rose to the pinnacle of fame for the "sectional" precision of monumental portraits that-look-like-photos-but-not-are. So at the outset, at the level of perceptual and intellectual impact, if on the one hand the quadrangular sections of LDV make us think back to the "squares" of Chuck Close that emphasize the portions of "epidermal territory" with the verofunctional clarity of every detail of the depicted subject, on the other, the spherical and colored sections that map the portraits of LDV represent (also) a tribute to certain outcomes of the work quick change di Leigh Bowery. […]

[taken from the text by Emanuele Beluffi]