Luigi Settembrini
Born in Rome, Italy
Lives & works in Madrid, Spain
Luigi Settembrini is an artist who works in the fields of painting and set design.
Settembrini specialized in art during high school before studying set design at the Academy of Fine Art of Rome.
His passion for dance theater and art therapy inspired him to write a thesis on design methodology entitled Martha Graham and the Ideology of the Body: Methodology of the Avant-Garde.
Settembrini then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Art (Michelangelo) of Agrigento where he studied The Use of Narration and Metaphor in Art Education, writing a thesis entitled Educational Workshops in Plastic-Figurative Expression (Art Therapy Methodology).
Settembrini has taught drawing, art history, painting and architecture at the high school level and has works as an art therapist at psychopedagogical medical institutes in Rome.
He has designed sets for independent productions in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Italy.
He also edited the online scenography column, Treaty on Set Design: From the Scenographic Event to the Artistic Creation for the TBArte Artistic and Cultural Association.
Since 2010, he has been a member of the UIL-UNSA National Union of Italian and European Artists and Writers, a testament to the value of his accomplishments as a professional artist.
In 2011, Luigi Settembrini was a guest at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi in Istanbul (Turkey) where he taught a seminar on his artistic philosophy, entitled Transition.
In the same year, he exhibited at the 54th Biennale di Venezia, in the Italian Pavilion, Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Sala Nervi.
In 2019, he received a Magna Grecia Art Award and was invested as a Gran Maestro dell’Accademia dei Dioscuri.
Roberto Chiavarini writes:
His universal art tends to embrace revolutionary cultural phenomena, a whirlwind that involves the spectator in a tactile, theatrical imagination which is captured in his compositions marked by clear conceptual flavor. Through his style, Maestro Settembrini, cultured and wise, lays out an anthology of his experiences and his personal artistic path.