 
Gaddini "disturbs" and enchants Austria's Biennial Exhibition
A young Tuscan artist was the winner of Austria's International Biennial contemporary art exhibition, which was held a few days ago in the splendid setting of Hüttenberg castle-stronghold, in the heart of Carinthia. Luca Gaddini had been chosen to take part in the Biennale with 80 other artists from all over the world, among which three Tuscan artists, Piero Rolla from Livorno, Fontanelli from Certaldo and Piero Barducci from Sesto Fiorentino.
Luca Gaddini received the highest and most qualified recognition of his career, granted by an International jury who prized his research called «Accesso negato» (Denied access), which consisted in regenerating on the computer a «disturbance», similar to that of the encrypted tv channels, which was then printed on large canvases.
Luca Gaddini was born in Lucca in 1963 and after completing his city's art institute, he approached the art of computer graphics to investigate that disturbance that - as can be read in the critical text that accompanies his work, written by journalist and art critic Cristina Olivieri - "becomes a process that transforms thought into emotional stop image, and which uses as material everyday leftovers, recollections of situations, facts and perceptions experienced in life. [...] His machine translates clear text in encrypted text and viceversa, like a cryptographer, like a democratisation of the image produced by emotions, passions and pain, from joy onto the aporia of feelings or the intoxication of images to which we are subjected to everyday [...]".
An artist who is therefore difficult to explain and perhaps even to be understood, but who has charmed Austria's biennial contemporary art exhibition, organised by Karl A. Irsigler and by chairman and vice-chairman Harry Jeschofnig and Margaretha M. Bauer.
Second and third place in the Austrian Biennale were Greek artist Jannis Markopoulus and hyper-realist American sculptress Carole Feuermann.
September.2002
Luca Gaddini's official website
Austria's Biennial contemporary art exhibition
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