Biography
Tommaso Lucarelli was born on November 20th in Pistoia, a Tuscan town
30 km from Florence, and his parents are Tuscan too.\n He spent his
teens between Florence and London. \n 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.\n
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. \n 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. \n 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. \n 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. \n 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, in addition to a
simple signature it is also the symbol of an entire culture, of the
history of the birth of the Italian language. Finally, Dante was
actually from Tuscany, and it is from here, after Latin, the Italian
language started, just from the town where I was born and where my
jewellery has been developed.
