Critique

Vittorio Sgarbi

Artist Luca Dall'Olio has always been able to preserve enchantment for childhood intact. Although he is now a grown man and a mature artist, his ego has never fought back the pleasure to travel in ''wonderland''. The artist constructs visual narrations interacting in complicity with those who, luckily, do not want to grow up, making oil paintings and decorating them with golden, silver and lead leaves. The titles he gives to these joyful representations send the observers some ironic... continue

Simona Clementoni

"La vida es sueño" stated Pedro Calderón de la Barca (in 1635), the last great voice of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. The same profound conviction, but leading to a totally opposed existential view, substantiates the pictorial journey of Luca Dall'Olio, the 50 year-old artist from Brescia, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. To the pessimism and skepticism of Jesuit mark of the playwright from Madrid, which leads to resignation and to the sense of the vanity... continue

Carlo Vanoni

I have always asked myself if the city, any city, with its architecture, main streets, monuments, etc. could become a place able to amaze us and at the same time welcome us. We can, through out gaze, make it become an our vital space? Could nomadism ( in the form of walking, strolling) ever be the ideal way of reaching this objective? A citation from Pasolini: Moscow is an immense Garbatella inspired me to some considerations. The city, I told myself, could be seen... continue

Luciano Caprile

Fantasy is a territory where all those who want to loosen the everyday strain, even with a glancing thought, find a privileged haven. Each of us fosters in their inmost feelings comforting images belonging to their childhood or rather retrieved from a chest of bewilderment, which is always difficult to restore in its freshness and immediate purpose. Time changes feelings. As time passes, it pollutes both look and desire. One shall, for an instant, return ... continue

Floriano De Santi

'I feel like a tireless traveller in every part of the known and unknown world' he stated with a note of poesy: 'an exploration pushing me to find a sort of psychic life through objectivity'. Actually his old and new work develops from a sort of stratification in which denseblankets of colour -- pale pinks, lavender violets, sage greens, golden yellows, cotton whites, scarlet reds -- alternate with material elements of delicate, impalpable consistency, transparent nuances and gilded backgrounds... continue

Marcello Riccioni

Scroll quickly the time in which You ran after your dreams. Foolish man You care for your moods with such drive and joy while Awake with no awareness of what your brain Will suggest to you during the night, it stimulates you, it teaches you. Pure awareness of what you are, desires, yearnings. It sometimes happens that you remember a dream. Images apparently vivid told in a form of narration, cinematographic, where the idea of a future memory, immediate... continue

Paolo Levi

I PAESAGGI di Luca Dall'Olio nascono da un fervore fantasioso, da un gusto particolare per il colore che si diffonde su tutta superficie del supporto in stesure fluide, dense, vibratili e del tutto inedite. Il disegno configura con nettezza un universo onirico, dove le forme della natura e delle costruzioni immaginose sono riportate a una dimensione geometrica primaria, semplificata, volutamente antidecorativa, e di immediata decodificazione... continue

Ilde Rampino

Nelle tele di Dall'Olio vive l'anima dei paesaggi. Artista versatile, Dall'Olio ha partecipato a numerose mostre in Italia e all'estero, come l'Intemational Expo di Miami e l'Art Expo di New York. Significativi per l'evoluzione della sua arte sono stati i suoi numerosi viaggi in Turchia, Marocco e Malesia che hanno dato alla sua pittura un più vasto respiro culturale e immaginifico. continue

Giuseppe Bonini

The "worlds" of Dall'Olio Luca Dall'Olio's actual research has its roots in experiences that goes back to the time when he went to the Brera Academy of Art. But it was not so much the lessons by Aldo Turchiaro or Gottardo Ortelli to leave an unforgettable impression in the work of the young artist, as from one side the impact with the Milanese metropolis and from the other the pure contrast between this urban dimension and his original places. It is not by a chance that his first convincing .continue

Gigi Montini

Every time we meet, Luca Dall'Olio draws my attention things which don't usually catch the public eye, like a not-so-famous exhibition, or an old church not mentioned in the usual itineraries, or a flea market which selis strange nick-nacks. He is a curious person, and his curiosity makes him enthusiastic. He's refined, enough to not be satisfied with good taste alone. He has an undoubtable talent, what is needed for a person who has chosen to make a career of his art... continue

Ugo Ronfani

There exists a plastic thought not less important than the scientific one. Art is not only a mean of expression and communication, it's also a way to knowledge. PIERRE FRANCASTEL - L'art et la technique "Here in Japan there is, everywhere, a special organization of space. On the road, or traveling by train across country-sides and mountains, I can see backgrounds blendings with fragments, fields juxtaposing to fields - both in the rural and in the visual sense... continue

Francesca Bagliolo

The enchantment of the narration is very far from being exceeded. Fairy tales go on handing down an ancient memory, made of dreams, unreal situations that acknowledge the everyday of everyone, and through their plots they reveal the most unconscious reality of everyone. The narration tends to escape from reality, even presenting it in its intimal substance. It's the dram of a dreaming man or a man dreamt by someone, whose countours become thinner, and whose oneiric... continue