Luigi Bagolini is a sculptor and painter whose practice bridges science, craft, and artistic expression. Trained at the historic School of Arts and Crafts of Rome, he refined his classical technique through an apprenticeship with master marble sculptor Otello Scatolini, former President of the Università dei Marmorari di Roma. Under Scatolini’s mentorship, Luigi absorbed both the technical precision and emotional depth of marble carving, approaching stone as material and metaphor.

 

His painting practice was shaped by artists Alberto Parres who instilled in him a reverence for color as emotional architecture and the interplay of Eastern and Western artistic traditions and studied oil painting techniques with Gilio Xie. Moving between marble, oil, and acrylic, Luigi explores the tension between structure and emotion, light and gravity, body and atmosphere.

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Originally trained as a scientist, Luigi holds a PhD in Electromagnetism. His background in engineering sharpened his sensitivity to hidden structures, which now informs his artistic inquiry. Born into a family of scientists, philosophers, and artists, Luigi embodies the convergence of logic and lyricism, discipline and imagination.

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He lives and works between Rome and New York with his wife, Amy, creating works that merge tradition with contemporary sensibility.