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Pietro Lugaro

Student Research Assistant

Pietro Lugaro is a research-based artist whose work investigates visual culture, archives, and the semiotics of form. After receiving both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sculpture from the Academies of Fine Arts in Carrara and Urbino, he moved to Berlin, where he collaborated with the artist Petrit Halilaj. His research focuses on the study of dysfunctional or non-functional systems, understood as sites where tension, ambiguity, and oxymoron become operative forces. By combining archival analysis with performative, technological, and communal practices, Pietro examines the unstable border between symbolic and pre-symbolic structures. His work often takes the form of installations, performances, diagrams, and textual assemblages that explore the intersections between technicity, language, and embodiment.

Currently, Lugaro is developing the project Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism (ACV), in collaboration with Alessandro Mac-Nelly, an interactive installation that investigates the origins of symbolic language and the morphological processes underlying diagrammatic thought. Parallel to this, he is conducting research on the cultural and affective politics of Cuteness, approaching it as a field of ideological distortion within contemporary aesthetics. Across these investigations, his practice articulates a form of techno-magic that treats technological processes as poetic and cognitive events, aimed at revealing hidden grammars within images, gestures, and collective imagination.

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