Giacomo Luxury. Poetics of signs

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition Giacomo Luxury. Poetics of signs. Ceramics and paintings, Palace of the Commissioner – Priamàr Fortress, Savona, 4 – 25 May 2025.

“The one that goes on stage in the suggestive rooms of the Palazzo del Commissioner cannot be interpreted only as an artistic exhibition: Giacomo Luxury (Malles Venosta, 1953), cultured and sensitive artist, proposes something more than a mere exhibition of his works, By inviting the user to go up to the Fortress of the Priamàr of Savona to embark on a path inside his imagination.
Poetics of signs It is not anthological and was not born with the aim of recomposing the large, composite and heterogeneous puzzle consisting of the fifty years of luxury artistic production; It is rather an immersion in the artist's work, an accurate and thoughtful selection that develops through thematic capsules that, In the form of installations that dialogue with exhibition environments, light the light on recurrent themes and languages. […]
Luxury uses color in a narrative and expressive key, To build forms that in a free and dynamic way occupy the surface of the canvas and ceramics. These are stratifications and dialogues between primary colors and their alchemical derivations, obtained through a gestural pictorial technique that from time to time manifests itself with impetus and naturalness or with meticulousness and weighting ". (Daniele Panucci, from the text Journey to the center of the earth. Alchemical symbols and poetic suggestions in the recent sculptural production of Giacomo Luso)

“In his works, The absolute protagonists are three signs, recurrent and immediately recognizable, which intertwine in a vortex of bright colors, creating a symbolic visual alphabet that becomes an autobiographical narrative. The repetition of these signs is never accidental: They are symbols of a passage, of an evolution, of a transcendental experience that take shape through the pictorial gesture until they become the cornerstone of luxury artistic reflection. Nature, Life and consciousness are the symbolic meanings enclosed in the three forms that make its artistic poetry immediately recognizable: The poetics of the signs ". (Paula Gargiulo, from the text The poetics of the signs in the work of Giacomo Luxury)