Luca Carraro

Personal portfolio of Luca Carraro

Carraro Luca has been interested in drawing and painting since he was a child, in his adolescence he was literally fascinated by art in general and in particular by the underground culture of body-art. He attended an advertising graphics institute, and dedicated himself to studying art on his own in books and attending exhibitions, learning the notions of the great self-taught masters. He began to paint in 2002 trying to figure out how to move his creativity in search of a personal style. In 2005 he began his career as a tattoo artist, at the same time he attended a private course of painting techniques for 3 years. In 2010 he opened his own tattoo studio, the Wild boys tattoo 'n' art atelier, a studio that still serves as a focal point for the production and vision of his works. Dedicated to work as a tattoo artist, he simultaneously produces his own pictorial and sculptural in total independence trying to offer his personal point of view on the reality of our days. PERSONAL NOTE Although established as a tattoo artist for a few years now, I find the act of painting much more fulfilling and liberating. In recent years it can be said that the practice of tattooing has become almost a work of craftsmanship that has very little artistic, where the subjects are always the same repeated endlessly until the passing of the moment's fashion. A sad fate for a practice which, even before the advent of social networks, boasted the fact that those who decided to get a tattoo did it to distinguish themselves, for a question of belonging to a certain type of society, for the culture of their origins, and never for fashion. This prompted me to get back into the game because in art everything is possible. The fact of not imposing limits on myself in the experimentation and composition of the works I find a subversive act against mediocrity and it is the one that best suits my need as an artist. In painting I have tried to take a different direction from body-art keeping well separate the two things. I abandoned the realistic style to look for something new that gives me the possibility to represent the chosen themes in a simple way and that the images have a narrative impact in the viewer.I have been influenced by many artists and pictorial styles of the past , the most significant, just to name a few, I would say, Fortunato de Pero, Stanislav Szukalski, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, etc etc.. (naming them all would be too wordy), in my research I have extracted the salient points for each one, evaluating what most struck me technically, then I merged them together and this is what I do today, this is my way of painting and seeing things. Distorted shapes with synthetic strokes, the loss of identity of the subject and the story of the image in the surface, space and line.