Via Aurelia n°25
16030 S. Lorenzo della Costa
S. Margherita Ligure (GE)
ITALY 9leonardo9@virgilio.it
Leonardo Lustig
Leonardo Lustig was born in S.Margherita Ligure on 19th June 1969. Since an early age, he shows his vocation
for drawing and sculpture, which brings him to successfully finish both the School of Arts in Chiavari and the
course of sculpture at the Art Academy of Carrara. In the meantime, he begins to exhibit some of his works
in some tourist towns in the province of Genoa.
His artistic formation is strongly influenced by the intense and continuative studies from nature of the major
works of the western culture, as we can see from the several drawings inspired by the visit to different
museums. After his degree at the Academy, he improves the techniques of working materials in foundries and
marble laboratories in Carrara and Pietrasanta, where he works successfully as an assistant of the Moravian
sculptor Ivan Theimer and where he meets internationally renowned artists.
Leonardo Lustig's works mainly come from his study of nature forms and above all of the human body. He takes
inspiration from the Greek art, which represents the starting point to get his own artistic expression and
that doesn't exclude a possible development towards other languages in the future. He thinks, anyhow, that
the teaching of the great masters of the Middle Age and the Renaissance is essential as a base from which to
move on to possible changes of style. Since his artistic début he was specially interested in the study of
the manufacture techniques of various materials, being aware that only their knowledge leads to the clear
realization of the "artistic idea". The emphasis on movement is fundamental in many of his works.
