Printmaker Marco Luccio is both the creator and destroyer of his divine subject: Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and desire.
Inspired by a cast statue at Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum, the artist has etched the goddess onto a single copper plate using his signature drypoint technique, before carrying her through a series of bold transformations, capturing each stage of metamorphosis in a process akin to the pentimento technique in Renaissance painting.
These works explore Luccio’s personal reflections on love, fragility, power, and the transformative nature of human connection.
Marco Luccio, Untitled, 2024, drypoint on velin arches, 110.5 × 76cm. Courtesy the artist and Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
Hellenic Museum
16 August to 27 October 2024
Melbourne
