2022

Je m’engage… Mi impegno… I pledge…
10 SIMPLE ACTIONS TO SAVE THE PLANET 😉

“What can we do in the face of the climate emergency?”
ALtogether, beings between human and plant, animal and mineral, seek an answer to this urgent question. These simple actions are a brief “poetic” synthesis of two precious texts: the Earth Peace Treaty by Thich Nhat Hanh and the Encyclical Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis. They can be disseminated in all languages and throughout the planet by any means possible. It’s not hard, it’s challenging!
“It’s urgent to take care of our common home, the planet and to take care of one another, in order to maintain the fragile balance of the ecosystem we all are part of in good health.” Pope Francis

2022

eUrban is an urban evolution project that brings together people, business, contemporary art and nature. Born from an artist’s idea by Ria Lussi and created thanks to the meeting with Barbara Polito, of Silver Fir Capital and GWM Group, eUrban is an innovation laboratory in constant transformation in the heart of the EUR in Rome, imagined to improve the well-being of workers, residents and visitors through projects and actions guided by the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Beating hearts of eUrban:
The Walkaround Gallery, an open-air public art installation, a choral work with 180 works by 12 different artists surrounded by the fascinating neo-rationalist architecture of the area; The Moving Forest, a transitional forest with more than 400 trees of 14 different species, in a tub, which offers a suggestive and unusual view from above and contributes to the absorption of CO2, the recovery of fine dust and polluting agents and the lowering of temperature; The Italian Zen Garden, a surprising olfactory garden with over 10 species of colorful medicinal plants and a centuries-old olive tree, a symbol of peace.

2021

On display is a collection of ironic and playful self-portraits; it was inspired by Daina Maja Titonel’s invitation to close a two-year cycle of exhibitions dedicated to female artists. Lussi responds by challenging the current gender disparity through permutations of her “Rose”. Completed in acrylic paint on a round-shaped canvas, each portrait attributes an adjective to its “Rose”; in turn, this becomes an interpretive lens colouring the candid and metamorphic figure that emerges. Lussi’s sophisticated research into chromatic variations renders each of her roses unique. The exhibition is completed by a bust of Leonardo da Vinci in Murano Crystal (2016); three Rosaries (2016) in blown glass by Maestro vetraio Silvano Signoretto, and the excruciating “face” of Irene (2014), the only empress to have ruled in the fifteen-century history of the Roman Empire.
The reflection that emerges is a shared and striking concern with the gender gap. This is compounded by the gallerist’s own research: she used her expertise as a mathematician to develop a comparative statistical analysis of the state of the gender gap in the visual arts.

2020

AL#0001: mitochondriac alien, visitor from future eras, cybernetic creature, made in aluminium, touching with his vibrant yet demure shine, resistance and lightness. Ria Lussi’s “nouveau né” is born from a collaboration with a designer team and artificial intelligence. From March 10th to April 30th 2020 Mucciaccia Contemporary Gallery hosts among the others allegoric creatures of Ria Lussi, the new Riflettenti (Reflecters) – silver-plated, engraved and sandblasted glasses – where are drawn some of the vices mentioned by the great European philosopher Giordano Bruno, in his work “Lo Spaccio de La Bestia Trionfante”. Through this series of philosophic portraits the spectator is called to interact playfully, recognizing himself while reflecting in them. This way you take up the artist’s implicit call to spontaneously make a collective action to partecipate to the Bestia Trionfante (Triumphing Beast) fall. The Bestia itself is portrayed, ink on silk, with a vibrant grey’s palette. Following the exposition’s path, the Matrici Cromatiche (Chromatic Matrixes), which  embodied the virtues, sit enthroned on the upper floor. There, you can find also  Old Giordano Bruno and Mnemosyne, in mirrored, blown glass, both works which inspired the artistic  philosophic project which started in 2016.

2018

Giordano Bruno, an unforgettable genius, master of artificial memory, a migrant among the Universities of Europe, was convinced that through the transmission of arts and knowledge, society could renew itself by “lighting up”. After reading enthusiastically the Spaccio de la Beast Triumphant, Giordano Bruno I imagined it thus… Curious, irreverent, volcanic, incandescent, indefatigable, optimistic, idealist, brilliant, universal. The only sure thing we know about his physical appearance is that he was small in stature. Perhaps this is why I imagined him squatted, ready to jump, with wings instead of arms! In good company with philosophers, artisans and acrobats, from 1 to 30 October 2018 the three-year project around Giordano Bruno “il luminoso” was carried out with a residence at the Macro Asilo. For a month a “room” of 15 meters by 8 as a scenic space has welcomed a series of actions around the great European genius and the participatory rereading of his book in which he expresses the fascinating concept of knowledge as an antidote to Ignorance, Inertia and the Bestiality that now as then afflicts humanity! In the post-digital era one can share the project with a global community, and also bring the younger generations closer to the function of contemporary art, which has a particular civil value in a public place.

L.S.D.

2015

"LUSSI secondo DAVERIO"

Sometimes «nomina sunt consequentia rerum (names are the consequence of things). How many unexpected lussi there are in the brightness of her work…

And furthermore, for those who are not too distracted, to recall is better: the etymology of “lusso” (luxury) is lux. How much light there is in these sculptures!!!»

_{Philippe Daverio}

E.O.L.

2014

"EMPERORS OF LIGHT"

Through twelve portraits, from Julius Caesar to Constantine XI, the Series chronicles the transformation of the Roman and Byzantine Empire, which \”illuminated\” as it was by the Christian doctrine throughout its long history, renewed its moral code over time.

_{Text dy Gianluca Marziani e Adriano Berengo}

M.I.

2014

"MATRIX IMPERATORUM"

This work, designed especially for the Callicola Visual Arts Building of Spoleto, joined the original framework of the Twelve Light Emperors of the Floridi Doria Pamphilj Series. Almost three meters high, the Matrix Imperatorum is now part of the 2.0 Collection of the Museum.

W.O.L.

2012

"WARRIORS OF LIGHT"

Visitors? Guests? Creatures? Mitochondrial devas?
Each W.O.L. is fierce and benevolent at the same time, helpless in its astonished innocence.
Forged by fire: ready to face earthly residence, not devoid of danger.

_{Testi di Jean Blanchaert}

H.A.D.

2010

HAVE A DREAM

I have a dream, you have a dream, may you have a dream, for if they are not dreams, what are they? The characters I draw come to light unbeknown to me and come, I believe, from inifinity.
Or rather I cannot say neither where they come from nor where they go.
They seem to have stories to tell and are here on earth, a little unwary, disoriented…..

_{Testi di Umberto Palestini e Massimiliano Floridi}