Luigi Zuccheri

Sylvia Kouvali is pleased to present, for the first time in London, works by Luigi Zuccheri (b. 1904, Gemona del Friuli; d. 1974, Venice). This exhibition seeks to present an overview of Zuccheri’s ambitious practice beginning with one of his earliest works from 1940 through to his later paintings of the mid 1960s to early 70s. Working in tempera, made from his own pigments from stones collected from local riverbanks, Zuccheri created a body of work depicting still lives, Italian landscapes, flora and fauna, animals and religious iconography. A fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Northern Italy, Zuccheri’s later began to paint humans dwarfed by nature working in subdued earthy tones.

Zuccheri exhibited widely in his lifetime, including at the 1950 Venice Biennale, with posthumous solo exhibitions having been held most recently at MMXX, Milan (2020); Museo Civico d’Arte, Pordenone (2014) and Musei Civici di Treviso, (2007).