{"product_id":"marco-di-lucca-awkward-kiss","title":"Marco Di Lucca \"Awkward Kiss\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarco Di Lucca \"Awkward Kiss\" 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSculpture, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 16 x 17 x 6 inches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnique\u003cbr\u003eSigned on Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarco Di Lucca is a marble sculptor based in Longmont, Colorado. Born in Italy in 1973, he spent thirty years as a visual effects artist, working on digital humans and characters for companies including Weta Digital, Industrial Light \u0026amp; Magic, Apple, and Nvidia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2014, Di Lucca trained in marble carving in Carrara and Pietrasanta and began carving alongside his VFX work, drawn to a medium that could hold what digital work could not: weight, permanence, and the direct evidence of the hand. After a decade working across both disciplines, he left the digital industry in 2026 to pursue carving full-time. His practice centers on portraiture and the human face, working in Carrara and Colorado Yule marble with a realist, classically rooted approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDi Lucca is affiliated with the National Sculpture Society, the Society of Portrait Sculptors in the UK, and the American Artists Professional League.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Statement: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Awkward Kiss is about the gap between an experience and how it's supposed to feel. A first kiss, or any first intimate contact, isn't always the release it's built up to be — it can be tense, uncertain, more endured than enjoyed. I wanted the piece to hold that discomfort rather than resolve it. Dreams work the same way: they don't give you the polished version of a desire, they give you the version still tangled up with anxiety, expectation, and everything that hasn't been worked out yet. The piece emerges from a mass of raw, unfinished stone for the same reason — it's not a memory being recalled cleanly, it's an experience still caught in the process of becoming something, the way a dream leaves you holding a feeling before it's had time to resolve into meaning.\" - Marco Di Lucca\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Untitled Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42749448257618,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/6235\/9378\/files\/Marco_Di_Lucca-Awkward_Kiss-2023-1_8208-TheUntitledSpaceDREAMExhibit.jpg?v=1790121158","url":"https:\/\/untitled-space.art\/products\/marco-di-lucca-awkward-kiss","provider":"The Untitled Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}