De Luigi's first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery "Il Canale" in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and fantastical beings. Upon meeting with the gallery owner Luciano Ravagnan in 1968, De Luigi's exhibition activity increased in Venice and abroad. There were exhibitions in Trieste, Milan, New York, Munich, Monte Carlo, Paris and, beginning in 1975, in many German cities.
Alongside works with themes of Vedutism and entomology, he depicted threats which menace Venice: flood water, pollution, technology, and consumerism. Venice is represented in surreal visions, catastrophic, sensual or decadent, using an oil technique; the "electronic brush" of the computer is used later.
In the 1980s De Luigi produced sculptures, including enormous bronze horses inspired by the famous Triumphal Quadriga of St Mark's Basilica. De Luigi's horses are now in the squares of Marseille, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Perth and Bolzano. As of 2004, two of the horses were installed in the lobby of the Adam's Mark hotel in Saint Louis. For the Venice Carnival of 1990 he created a huge chocolate horse of the same dimensions. In 1999 he sculpted one in Murano glass.
Exhibitions
1965
Galleria II Canale, Venezia
1966
Galleria II Traghetto 2,Venezia
1967
Drake Gallery, Chicago
1968
Galleria II Cannocchiale, Milano
1969
Palazzo Costanzi VII° Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, Trieste
1970
Galleria S. Stefano, Venezia
Galleria d´Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
Galleria del Sagittario, Milano
GalleriaTraghetto, Venezia
1971
Columbia University: Casa Italiana, New York
1973
Galerie Margot Delfs, Munich
1974
La Pagode, Paris
Kubus, Hannover
One man GalleriaTommaseo, Trieste
1975
Galleria Quarta Dimensione, Arezzo
Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, Venezia
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne
Foyer des Grossen Hauses der Städt. Bühnen, Dortmund
