Luigi Recchi was born in Norcia in 1943 but immediately after his family moved to Rome. During his boyhood he made the first artistic experiences taking part in some collective exhibitions where he met the young Luciano Ventrone, Ligabue and Zavattini.
In 1970 he started a collaboration with the Torino Financial Textile Group that would last until 1989 and where he cooperated tight with various stylists: among them the maison Dior and Emanuel Ungaro, whose collection “Ungaro only woman” would be managed by Luigi Recchi.
In 1983 he moved to Torino and the year after to Rivoli: doc. Marco Rivetti, then managing director of the Financial Textile Group, entrusted him the realization of the scene costumes for the show “Il Corso del Coltello” by Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen and Frank O. Gehry.
In 1987 the Financial Textile Group entrusted him the realization of the Christian Dior Collection in Paris. In 1989 he left the Financial Textile Group and he took the task of style office director by sisters Fendi, where he met and cooperated tightly with Karl Lagherfield.
The year after the town of Rivoli, in the Region Piemonte where he lived, said him goodbye before he moved to Rome definitively, the town organized one man exhibition in the communal Villa.
In 1995 he had responsibilities tasks by Lancetti. The year after he cooperated with the I.B.S. of Florence and he became Mark Eiser consultant, an American stylist that works in New York.
In 1999 he lived a beautiful moment with the poet and stage manager and director Beppe Costa, who entrusted him with the scenography of a play dedicated to Fabrizio De André, deceased less than one year before. The four walls of the hall were covered with newspapers upon which the painter impressed his art’s colours and shapes, thus creating a gamut of visions where unity between identities and social differences takes place. The existential tragedy crawls in the background: only poetry, showing pigeon-holing dictatorship, proposes happiness in an asymmetric reality.
This was for him a profitable year also because he met Bruno Ciaffi, a men who spreads modern art in the capital, the holder of Latina Publishers Gallery. Ciaffi organized immediately Recchi’s one man exhibition in the Scala Albini by “La Rinascente” in Rome.
In 2000 he started cooperating with Pagani’s Engema Art Center.
He drew up a sole agency contract for the state of Washington with the Adamo Hill’s Gallery, with seat in Seattle, Kirkland and Bellevue.
The organizers of Moa Casa by the “Fiera di Roma” had to prepare pavilion “La Casa Telematica” (The Telematic House), they choose his paintings exclusively as background.
In 2003 he participated with some works to the Bologna Fair with Edizioni Varone-Selemark.