Lucia Leuci's Food as Art at Fondazione Adolfo Pini

Lucia Leuci (Bisceglie, 1977) presents an exhibition at Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan, where five plates—two black, one green, one blue, one brown—are displayed under a coffered ceiling among pendulum clocks and rusted planes. Encased in glass vitrines topped with arches, the plates evoke seasons, sowing, harvest, winter, spring pollen, and summer by the sea. The work transcends mere Food Design, prompting reflection on food as both matter and cult object. Leuci questions whether perishable, ephemeral food-matter requires form to assert itself as 'substance' and what sublimation into art means in an era where cuisine is creativity before tradition. The frames are the vitrine and the plate, with organic matter on canvas claiming its value from within.