He was born in Quinto di Treviso, Italy, in the 1953.
Graduated at a high school specializing in art and at the Fine Art School in Venice in 78, Luciano Longo lives and works in Treviso. Since the beginning he shows a special interest for the aesthetic aspect of the different materials he uses; his works tend to exploit their morphological characteristics and to put them in a balanced relation with shapes and colours. He has exhibited his works in different Italian and European galleries and museums. He carve, paint and create frescos, having care of reproducing the human figure.
He was born to an artist family, from his father Luigi, famous italian interior decorator and fresco painter, since small kid, receive a figurative education that he will accomplish with his study at “Liceo Artistico”.
The interest and the deep study of classics theme, mark and scare his artistic nature in such a strong way that, after a brief abstract production period, he keep on continuosly and obsessively analizing human body, and studying the natural interaction of those figures with the surrounding space.
Has his public debut in the early 70’s with abstract material/physical sculptures and paintings.
During the venetian period has important contact and exchange of impressions with painters and carvers as Emilio Vedova and Alberto Viani, with interesting musicians and poets as Luigi Nono and Rafael Alberti and with notable theatre actors as Giovanni Poli and Arnaldo Momo.
His concern range from teaching Art History and artistic technics to realize scenography and set design for theatre and television (Rai radio Televisione Italiana, Antenna 3, and so on) and realizing paint and sculpture decoration that we can admire in several Villas in north Italy.
However his major engagement is creating sculptures, frescos, wall paintings, mosaics, and in those various production he use different kind of materials among which glass, marble, wood, bronze, precious and semiprecious stones and gold.