Artist: Aldo Luongo
Title: A Sunny Ride Thru Palermo
Edition Size: 400
Medium: Serigraph on Paper
Image Dimensions: 42" x 31.75"
About the Art: In 1960, Aldo Luongo graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He lived in New York and Los Angeles, working as a designer before completely dedicating himself to his artwork. Dionne Warwick hired Mr. Luongo to create an album cover for her, and as a result, Hiram Walker hired him to do eight portraits, including those of Charlton Heston, Bill Cosby and Desi Arnez Jr. for a Celebrity Tennis Tournament. A few years later, two of his first endeavors into sports art are chosen to represent the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, leading him to be named as an official Olympic artist. During this time he was also commissioned by the White House to join in the famous Easter Egg Hunt by painting two of the traditional wooden eggs. These eggs are stored in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Aldo Luongo's acrylics and fine art prints embody a sense of fluidity and intensity. Whether he is portraying a romantic enclave or a richly textured landscape, central to all of his paintings is the balance between memory and hope, sorrow and humor, freedom and control. These dynamics are clearly seen in his figurative works, especially those portraying The Hawk", his archetypal character spun from the memory of his father and the most enduring single image in his paintings. Described by Luongo, he has only 10 or 15 minutes left on the clock of life and came to personify Luongo's ideals, his notion of the good life. The character was never meant to resemble his father physically, but portrays his spirit, representing the appreciation of quality, the hunger of life and living it to the fullest. The Hawk became the future the artist would like to live. His work has been exhibited in Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico and Switzerland."