Lucia Marcucci
Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea / Lucia Marcucci
L’immagine della scrittura : Gruppo 70, poesia visuale e ricerche verbo-visive, Milan, Mousse Publishing, 2015
Miscellanea, Centro d’Arte Spaziotempo, Florence, 1993
→Sprintpoem, Fondazione Berardelli, 2012
→The other view italian women photographers, 1965-2015, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, 5 October 2016–8 January 2017
Italian artist and writer.
After living for some time in Livorno, where she collaborated with an avant-garde theatre, Lucia Marcucci moved to Florence. Like most young talents in the 1960s, she started out with other artists and poets, with the Gruppo 70, the magazine Tèchne, and more specifically with the Gruppo internazionale di poesia visiva (“international visual poetry group”). She made contributions to many reviews (Arte Oggi, Il Portico, Nuova Corrente, La Battana, Lotta Poetica), all of which demonstrated the ideological commitment of their “artistic struggle”. Her collages and art objects were shown at a number of events, particularly at the International Art Biennale (Venice, 1978), in Florence, and in Rome. Marcucci’s work stands out through her unusual use of visual, gestural, and physical codes; the series Impronte e Paesaggi [Imprints and landscapes, 1976] uses body markings in an autobiographical manner. The slogans, symbols, images and colours – especially blacks and reds – in her compositions are the result of a playful, eye-catching, violent and vital creativity, that she utilises as provocative processes – a global indictment of the tragedies affecting our world.
Among her grievance themes: the commodification of women’s bodies and beauty, the profit motive, the Vietnam War and napalm bombs, hunger, and the exploitation of nature – such connections can be established through works like Semplice facile divertente [Simple, easy, fun, 1966], Io to ex-amo [I ex-love you, 1966), as well as a technological novel, Nove Stanze [New stanzas, 1972], a visual essay, and a series of object/books (1983).
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Lucia Marcucci, Stanze [The rooms], 1971, collage on cardboard, 32.5 x 42.5 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Proverbio cinese (poesia manifesto), [Chinese proverb (manifest poetry)], 1964, 100 x 70 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Io bevo [I drink], 1964, collage on panel, 30 x 20 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, La poltrona del diavolo [The devil’s armchair], 1965, collage on cardboard, 49 x 34 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Quando l’America uccide [When Amercia kills], 1970, collage on cardboard, 70 x 50 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Donna incinta [Pregnant woman], 1970, collage and mixed technique on board, 50 x 35 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Vissero [They lived], 1972, acrylic andcollage on cardboard, 48 x 34.5 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Come ama, come lavora [How she likes, how she works], 1972, collage on cardboard, 70 x 50 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Culturae [Cultures], 1977, print, acrylic and collage on cardboard , 70 x 50 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, poesia è del poeta [Poem to a poet], 1990, arcylic on canvas, 147 x 146 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Libro oggetto soggetto [Book object subjet], 1991, acrylic on book, 17 x 23 x 12 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Corruption, 2008, collage on cardboard, 36 x 52 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, Hybris, 2009, acrylic on print canvas, 110 x 116 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Lucia Marcucci, La comunicazione è temporaneamente interrotta [The communication is temporarily interrupted], 2010, acrylic on print canvas, 169 x 119 cm, Courtesy Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, © Photo: Claudia Cataldi, © ADAGP, Paris 2021
