Biography
Tommaso Lucarelli was born in Pistoia, a Tuscan town 30 km from Florence, and his parents are Tuscan too.
He spent his teens between Florence and London.
After studying at the art school, at 19th he moved to Florence and began a private school to become goldsmith with the primacy of the youngest student of the school.
During the years he followed courses in cad, embedding, gemology, goldsmithing. Also thanks to the academy contribution, he goes on being passionate about the history of the art of jewellery.
He immediately starts working in a big laboratory in “Via dei Serragli” near Porta Romana in Florence. After a few years, an uncontrollable urge to put his creativity into practice was born inside him. He leaves everything going to London to emprove his English.
In 2014 Tommaso left London and arrived in Rome to expand his cultural baggage, with the aim to know in-depth the history of the most important basilicas of the Eternal City.
He attended the Italian Cinema and Television Academy studying documentary direction and got into film photography classes. After the academy end, he made a documentary about a street artist who dances a tango with an umbrella in the streets of the city center.
In 2016 Tommaso creates his brand and goes to New York; after a few months he'll do his first exhibition in an art gallery on 8 Av. and 42nd Str. which pushes him to devote himself exclusively to the jewellery sculpture.
After this important experience he moved to California and rented a small space in the Design District in Los Angeles, where he created any works and does an exhibition in a gallery in the same district.
On his return to Italy any important institutional exponents asked him to manage an exhibition at the Marino Marini Museum in Pistoia, where Tommaso will show his works with great media coverage.
The year after Tommaso goes again to New York for a short time and then decided to go living in Hong Kong where he remains for one year. Later he does a new exhibition at the Ame Gallery, remaining truly fascinated by Asian culture and those countries traditions.
After this fantastic experience, he decides to leave to China and later to Japan, with the aim to come close to the original Buddhist and Hindu philosophy.
Returned from Hong Kong to Italy, his works lead him once again to affirm his presence in international panoramas; in effect, the artist decides to leave for Dubai to exhibit at the Glory Art gallery, an important gallery at the "Jumeira Beach Hotel", one of the most exclusive hotels in the world.
After having gotten a formidable success, he was proposed to organize a great show at the Ethiad Modern Art Gallery, one of the most important galleries in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates.
In 2018 the artist returned to Italy, with so many invitations to show his works in important national and international galleries, and also several collaborations in workshops, schools, academies, and training laboratories in the goldsmith sector.
Perfection & Imperfection
I try to valorise the natural imperfection of things because this is where the contrast is born, I think any form of Art is based in principle on a meeting between perfection and imperfection. Tommaso Lucarelli Jewellery. I love the imperfection of things because nowadays it is difficult to find: everything must be perfect and perfection is now a sort of EXALTATION OF STEREOTYPE. Instead, I believe that imperfection connects perfectly equally with the clothes of the most extravagant and demanding designers, as well as those with the most sophisticated and elegant, for both men and women.
Signed d’Amor
My artwork is signed D'Amor because this is a word that is used often in the Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri; it is an important word because with this very work Dante introduced into the present world the Italian language which we know today. This work has always been introduced and studied in all Italian schools. So, besides being a simple signature it is also the symbol of an entire culture, history and birth of the Italian language. Lastly, Dante was from Florence in Tuscany, were Latin was born and where the real Italian Language started. This is the city where I was born and where my jewelry developed.
