LUCA COSER – FLANEUR
February, 19th at 8:00 - April, 18th at 17:00
Portfolio artworks on display Portfolio Coser Flaneur
FLANEUR
LUCA COSER’S SOLO SHOW
February 19 – April 18, 2025
CRAG Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the first exhibition of the year 2025 with the solo exhibition of the artist Luca Coser (Trento, 1965) hosted again in the gallery.
Drawing teacher at the Brera Academy and established artist in the painting scene of our country, Luca Coser offers with this exhibition, once again, an ironic, conscious and romantic cue with respect to his vision of the world (and of art).
Exhibition title: flaneur. For Baudelaire he was the gentleman who wandered idly through the city streets or also called “a botanist of the pavement”, the one who observes the changes in the metropolitan landscape, the people, the situations. He pushes through the city with awareness, but without a destination.
In the same way Luca Coser, an insatiable observer of discovery, recalls the figure of the Flaneur. He is a cultured spectator, sometimes nostalgic, but never markedly melancholic. His paintings are instinctive because the artist abandons himself to painting but this feeds on the baggage of his favorite books, films, the flash of a photograph and returns them to the public. This is how his canvases hide between a bit of mystery, between signs and pencil drawings. Between the stains of color and glazes, almost always white, a hint emerges, thrown out from the deep soul of the artist, influenced by some pages of Thomas Bernhard or Bohumil Hrabal, his beloved Central European authors.
“The observer is a prince who enjoys his incognito everywhere. […] He can also be compared to an immense mirror like this crowd; to a kaleidoscope endowed with consciousness that, with each of its movements, represents the multiple life and the mobile grace of all the elements of life. It is an insatiable self of the non-self, which at every moment renders and expresses it in images more vivid than life itself, which is always unstable and fleeting” (CB).
We like to think that a double path is created: on the one hand that of the artist, of his awareness and restitution, on the other that of the visitor who can walk inside the paintings, without necessarily a destination, waiting for everything to reveal itself, because this is what happens in Coser’s works, slowly.