Though thinner and less abstracted, Luca's oils reveal the clear influence of Francis Bacon in their loose and choppy renderings of people and places and their controlled palettes. As an Eastern European now living in the cool comforts of Canada, this young artist epitomizes the role of the voyeur with his keen eye and almost obsessive collecting of visual details, pulled from walking the streets, surfing the web, consuming magazines and immersing in film.
