Liana Miuccio

TU Rome, Professor of Visual Arts

Liana Miuccio
Untitled
Spanish Steps, Rome
Digital Photograph
16X24 inches
2022

Why did I invite Luca Padroni?

I chose the talented painter Luca Padroni to exhibit with me because I have admired his work for many years. I specifically choose one of his paintings to be in dialog with my photograph in this exhibition because both pieces speak to my feeling of Rome as being simultaneously chaotic and tranquil. The figures in our featured artwork are both personal and anonymous as they move through the urban landscape of Rome.

Luca Padroni
Sunset Tiburtina
olio su tela
17.7 x 23.6 in.
2018

Meet the Artists

  • Faculty

    Liana Miuccio, dual citizen of Italy and the US, received her BA in Humanities from McGill University in Montreal and Master’s degree in Cinema at the University of Roma Tre.

    Miuccio’s current solo exhibition is at the Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Rome and her recent exhibitions include La Casa della Memoria/ Fotografia Festival Internazionale, Rome, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, the American Embassy in Rome, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Miuccio was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy of Rome and her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

  • Invited Artist

    Luca Padroni is a contemporary Italian artist known for his large scale works in which fields of color form different architectural spaces. The starting point in his work are drawings and small scale studies in oil which evolve in monumental paintings. Powerful and ambiguous, his paintings embrace the observer as an integral part of the image. The formal composition of his pictures depicts a vigorous sense of motion, through the creation of unrealistic and impossible architecture of spaces, he reveals his fascinating perception of the surrounding world.