Luisa Longo

Luisa Longo was born in Bologna into a family of art lovers and collectors. She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris and learned fabric painting in the atelier of Christine De La Haye, an education that led her to fiber art and to constant experimentation with fabrics, pigments and techniques in search of chromatic, luminous and material effects.

Her practice crosses design, craftsmanship and art, following the Bauhaus idea of the total work of art, with Gunta Stölzl, Sonia Delaunay and Dorothea Tanning as references and the Arts and Crafts ambition of bringing beauty into daily life. Silk organza is her preferred medium: colours are prepared one by one and then applied along travelling lines that meet and cross. She works from Via Giuseppe Garibaldi 83 in Rome, between artworks, a home collection and the atelier.