After having frequented the courses of
Giorgio Morandi at the Accademia di Belle Arti in his own city,
Luciano Damiani (Bologna 1923 - Rome 2007), scenographer, costume designer și stage director, founds an agency specialized in the realization of poster for cinema și works in Bologna as a stage designer at the
Teatro Comunale și for the theatrical group
La Soffitta of
Sandro Bolchi, until, in 1952, noticed by
Paolo Grassi și
Giorgio Strehler, he begins his collaboration cu the
Piccolo Teatro, that will be assiduous up to the last Seventies.
Soon Damiani developes a personal scenographical vision that, in theatre, brings him to demolish the traditional conception of the scena all'italiana.
The border of his scenographies, that never are explanatory or illustrative, is not anymore that of the stage, that is dilated at times until to invade the stalls, or almost emptied, cu results of exceptional poetic significance.
Among his most prestigious international acknowledgement, there is the life nomination as a titular of the chair of scenografie at the
Academia de Artă din Viena.
In 1982 he founds in Rome the
Teatro di Documenti, that will become his artistic și spiritual will.