LUCA CONCA – Brief Biography

Born in Gravedona in 1974, he graduates from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. His first solo exhibition is held in 2004 at the Jannone Gallery in Milan, and in 2007, the significant exhibition Doppio Sguardo takes place at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery in Palazzo Sertoli in Sondrio. In 2008, he receives an invitation to participate in the Premio San Fedele Arte in Milan, and that same year, Credito Valtellinese commissions two monumental canvases for a permanent installation at its Morbegno headquarters. In 2011, Vittorio Sgarbi invites him to the 54th Venice Biennale: from then on, his solo and group exhibitions multiplies. Interpreting a solid figuration that, with a contemporary perspective, reinvents traditional styles, Conca has primarily reflected on the themes of portrait and landscape.

VINCENZO MARTEGANI – Brief Biography

Born in Mariano Comense in 1946, he has always been involved in environmental protection, promoting its preservation through his photographic work. A professional photographer since 1980, he has collaborated with leading national nature and science magazines such as Airone, Qui Touring, Scienza e Vita, Bellitalia, and Belleuropa, as well as working for travel and current affairs magazines such as Panorama Travel, Gente Viaggi, Oggi, and many others. Among his numerous reportages, the 1988 one on the phenomenon of desertification in Burkina Faso is noteworthy. Of particular note is the impressive series of photographs documenting and reinterpreting the architecture of Luigi Caccia Dominioni, exhibited repeatedly in Milan and Valtellina and published in four volumes. Furthermore, over the past four decades, Martegani has been the subject of over fifty exhibitions and has published around thirty photography books.

 

PEAKS – diptychs by Luca Conca and Vincenzo Martegani 

A photographer and a painter. Vincenzo Martegani and Luca Conca have not only established a dialogue, but have collaborated closely to create diptychs, artworks in which the same subject is explored and interpreted through their expressive languages.

The mountains are the absolute protagonist. Original views and glimpses of the peaks, ridges, rock faces, and valleys of the Orobie and Rhaetian Alps are first captured by Martegani’s eye and then translated by Conca through his own pictorial poetics.

Two artifacts, a photograph and a painting, a single work: a diptych that demonstrates two ways of interpreting the same subject, born from a single shared thought.

The installation, located in the garden of Palazzo Besta, a natural balcony overlooking the Alpine panorama, invites the viewer to embrace the work of nature and that of man in a single gaze.