Luciano Garbati

Luciano Garbati is an Argentine artist born in Buenos Aires in 1973.

His path in the art world began in early childhood through drawing as a means of expression, which eventually led him to discover his passion for sculpture.

After graduating from the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, he attended several courses in Rome, thanks to a scholarship granted by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Italian Cultural Institute, and in Carrara, Italy, in order to acquire stone carving techniques and other traditional methods that deepened his aesthetic approach to sculpture.

Garbati’s work maintains a constant dialogue with the traditions of figurative sculpture, focusing on Italian heritage and using that imagery as a starting point to develop his own poetics. In an attempt to crystallize the traces of any form of “vocatio,” he transforms it from a personal symbolic archive into a rarefied mythical repertoire.

His works have been exhibited in various Argentine institutions, such as the Ernesto de la Cárcova Comparative Sculpture Museum, the Enrique Larreta Spanish Art Museum, and the Italian Embassy, among others, in both group and solo exhibitions. His work Medusa with the Head of Perseus has recently gained worldwide attention after being honored by the City of New York with a public exhibition at Collect Pond Park in Lower Manhattan in 2020/2021. His works have also been exhibited in Miami and Istanbul.

As of May 13, the sculpture will be exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen, France, as part of an exhibition dedicated to Medusa and her representations in the visual arts throughout the centuries. Sous le regard de Méduse will feature works by Benvenuto Cellini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, and Damien Hirst, among many others. Garbati’s Medusa was selected for this important exhibition due to the significant impact it had after going viral on the internet in 2018.

Luciano Garbati graduated from the National School of Arts in 1996. He also studied at the Higher School of Arts, where he specialized in sculpture for three years. In 2001, he received a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Italian Cultural Institute to pursue a master’s degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He is currently working on his thesis to obtain a degree in Visual Arts at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.