{"id":8739,"date":"2014-11-14T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:18:41","slug":"to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/","title":{"rendered":"To be discovered: the quasi-science of Adrien Lucca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8739 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/d65-6-1-high-res-2013\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/d65-6-1-high-res-2013-480x384.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8744\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8744'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, D65 series, study n\u00b06.1, 50% reflectance \/ 66.7% coverage, 2013, pigments and pencil on paper, 160 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/d65-2-hi-res-adrien-lucca-2012\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/d65-2-hi-res-adrien-lucca-2012-480x327.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8742\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8742'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, D65 series, study n\u00b02, pigments and pencil on paper, 160 x 110 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/d65-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/D65-3-480x342.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8741\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8741'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, D65 series, study n\u00b03, transparencies \/ lamp \/ spectra, 2012, inkjet and pigments on paper, 160 x 116 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/adrien-lucca-d65-5-6-june-13-coupe\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/adrien-lucca-d65-5-6-june-13-coupe-458x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8740\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8740'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, &#8220;This will be a slice of the 6-primaries polyhedron at the level of the lightest neutral grey&#8221;, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/adrien-lucca-d65-2-05-5-12-detail\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/adrien-lucca-d65-2-05-5-12-detail-468x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8745\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8745'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, \u00e9tude D65 series, study n\u00b02, pigments and pencil on paper, 160 x 110 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/goethe\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"49\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Goethe-157x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8746\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8746'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, Goethe\u2019s thinking experiment: how Newton\u2019s spectrum would appear if the sky were luminous and the sun were black, 2014. Inkjet print on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/d65-6-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/D65-6.2-480x366.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8743\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8743'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, D65 series, study n\u00b06.2, 75% reflectance \/ 50% coverage, 2014, pigments and pencil on paper, 160 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/14\/to-be-discovered-the-quasi-science-of-adrien-lucca\/maquette04\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/maquette04-480x359.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8748\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8748'>\n\t\t\t\tAdrien Lucca, Maquette, Colorimetric prints series, version 1.2, 421 colours, 316 light spots, unique inkjet print on canvas, 450 x 216 cm. Courtesy of the artist.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/adrienlucca.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrien Lucca<\/a>, one of the few Brussels-based artists born in the 1980s to have a solo show in a public institution of the city, seizing the drifting border where science ends and art begins is a challenging task.<\/p>\n<p>His drawings and prints are the result of years of research in the realm of color theory and light behavior as well as a sheer passion for the mathematical approach in the art making. With no surprise, it is the heritage of 20th century music composers such as Giacinto Scelsi and the Spectralist\u00a0Hora\u021biu R\u0103dulescu\u00a0that Lucca quotes as his strongest source of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>We visited his last solo exhibition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrale-art.be\/expos\/adrien-lucca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centrale Electrique<\/a>, in which he presents a wide collection of his pictures or, as he likes to call them, mini retrospectives about time frames in his research-based practice. With intentional refusal for preparatory sketches, these drawings and prints include the totality of the investigations within certain topics. D65 n.3 (2012) for instance, is a drawing on paper where the artist explores the concepts of visibility and invisibility in grey backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Devoid of the classical attention to aesthetic beauty, Adrien Lucca blindly creates compositions that are in fact the visual output on paper and canvas of complex formulas and mathematical experiments carried out with self-coded computer software. When both the lab work and technical realization are taken into account, it is no wonder that every picture requires no less than four months to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite of what it may seem, Lucca\u2019s works are more than scientific sets of rules translated into pictures. We believe it is the unavoidable artistic subjectivity that moves within the plethora of laws of physics and psychophysics what is being restated here. This happens for example in the stunning craftsmanship of his drawings and their meticulously painted networks of marks and dots, a skillful labour that takes us back to the ancient time of monastic dedication and precision in the technique of handmade books.<\/p>\n<p>And in the personal progression of Lucca&#8217;s artistic practice, the more recent prints exhibited at Centrale Electrique and their implicit mechanical reproduction are distancing from the subjectivity of the artist only according to a superficial analysis. We see instead these prints as part of the Lucca\u2019s own voice possibly more than the drawings, since what they represent is the specificity of the artist&#8217;s own printer itself in a given time as the machine was an extension of the maker\u2019s senses and body.<\/p>\n<p>Stemming from an inverted test on the electromagnetic spectrum, the piece Goethe\u2019s Thinking Experiment: How Newton\u2019s Spectrum Would Appear If The Sky Were Luminous And The Sun Were Black (2014) works as a mechanical and visual interpretation given by the machine of a topic chosen by the artist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/23\/goethe-wrote-the-software-for-the-late-turner-currently-at-the-tate-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goethe\u2019s dissertation on colors<\/a> in response to Newton\u2019s theories on the light (an issue we have recently discussed on our website in connection to its great influence on how art has been perceived in modern time).<\/p>\n<p>Working as an ID card of the printer that serves for the recognition of its specificity, Gamut In The CIE u\u2019v\u2019 1976 Chromaticity Diagram is perhaps the extreme unification between the artist and machine since, in the guise of an inverted medical check, what this colorful shape consists of is a human scan of the body and functions of a technological inanimate object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Adrien Lucca, one of the few Brussels-based artists born in the 1980s to have a solo show in a public institution of the city, seizing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[1854],"class_list":["post-8739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-adrien-lucca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}