Luca Bertolo at Ceeac in Strasbourg and Meisenthal

L'hésitation, curated by Elena Volpato

From 15 June until 8 September 2024, CEAAC presents a survey of the work of the Italian painter Luca Bertolo across two venues in Strasbourg and Meisenthal.

Luca Bertolo (b. 1968 in Milan, lives and works in Seravezza) is one of the most influential painters of his generation in Italy. He is widely respected not only for his painting practice, which challenges the very notion of pictorial style, but also for his writings and his dedicated work as a teacher at the Bologna School of Fine Arts.

Hesitation is a central concept in Bertolo’s work. In Strasbourg, a monographic exhibition will offer an overview of his practice through a vast corpus of works from his main series of paintings of the past two decades. In Meisenthal (Moselle), several series of drawings and photographs produced between 2002 and 2022, representing a lesser-known yet fundamental aspect of his creative research, will be displayed in a former painter’s studio.

Taking place simultaneously in two venues in the Grand Est region, this two-fold exhibition evidences Bertolo’s conception of painting as a practice in suspension, reflecting the artist’s reluctance to explicate the subject of representation and his predilection for oblique perspectives and multi-layered images that steer clear from any assumed form.

In partnership with GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin.

The project is supported by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council programme (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.