Luca Alinari was an Italian painter and a set designer and one of the major exponents of Tuscan Imaginative Surrealism. Luca Alinari was born in Florence in 1943. He later settled in Rignano sull'Arno where he lived and worked throughout his life. Like all children he loves to draw and paint, but this passion will become his work and his main way of expressing himself. At twenty he attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Florence. During this period he became passionate about literary criticism and subsequently worked as a reviewer of fiction texts in the sector of written and television communication. In 1979, Luca Alinari decided to found the art magazine "Signorina Rosina" , of which he would be editor and director. In the same period he was very active in the intellectual and artistic world.
Luca Alinari was a friend of some important writers, such as Domenico Rea, Alfonso Gatto, José Saramago (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998), Edoardo Sanguineti (who dedicated some poems to him in 1974), and Goffredo Parise, who wrote an essay on his painting in the 80s.
Luca Alinari reached full artistic maturity around 1993. In his works he prefers fantastic landscapes characterized by a lively and brilliant colour. He uses an original pictorial technique that combines material layers and refined backgrounds of smooth and transparent colour.
Over the years it wins several important awards: on 12 June 2014 he was awarded at the Spoleto Festival Art; on 28 September 2014 he received the Premio Nazionale Torre di Castruccio with Giorgetto Giugiaro and other important personalities of culture and medicine, on 10 June 2015 he won the Premio Filo d'argento Auser at Palazzo Vecchio > for painting and the medal Florentia Mater.
In 2018 he received the highest recognition of the Tuscany Region, the Silver Banner.
During his life, Luca Alinari organizes exhibitions in important venues, such as in the Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera, in Ljubljana, in the Galleria Fogola in Turin, in the Palazzo Reale in Milan, at the
Luca Alinari dies in Florence in 2019.
Imaginative surrealism