“I Martedì dell’arte”: New Technologies and Artistic Creation at the Heart of the 23 June Meeting with Artist Luca Del Baldo and Professor Andrea Montanari

The relationship between technological innovation and artistic production will be the focus of the meeting «New Technologies and the Creation of Works of Art», scheduled for Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 2.30 p.m. at the Como Civic Art Gallery, 84 Via Armando Diaz.

The event is part of the 2026 edition of «I Martedì dell’arte», this year dedicated to the theme «Art and New Technologies». Open to the public, the meeting will explore the transformations introduced by new technologies into creative processes, the concept of the work of art and the ways in which art is produced, disseminated, commercialised and protected.

The meeting will be introduced and moderated by Professor Laura Facchin of the University of Insubria. Speakers will include artist Luca Del Baldo and Andrea Montanari, Full Professor of Private Law and Art Law at Universitas Mercatorum.

Luca Del Baldo was born in Como in 1969 and graduated with honours in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, with a thesis on Diane Arbus. During his career, he has collaborated with major publishing houses, including Mondadori, Rizzoli, Bompiani and Baldini & Castoldi, as well as with authors such as James Graham Ballard, William Gibson and James Ellroy. He has also corresponded with internationally renowned artists, writers and film directors, from Cindy Sherman to David Cronenberg.

Specialising in portraiture, Del Baldo has depicted some of the most iconic figures in music and cinema, including Mick Jagger, John Lennon, David Bowie, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi and Totò. He has also dedicated numerous works to intellectuals, writers, philosophers, artists, critics and leading cultural figures, from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Curzio Malaparte, Jacques Lacan to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx to Carlo Emilio Gadda, Pablo Picasso to Joseph Beuys, and Walter Benjamin to Aby Warburg. In 2020, with the theoretical support of American art critic Arthur Coleman Danto, he published «The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality / Atlas of the Iconic Turn» with De Gruyter.

Andrea Montanari is Full Professor of Private Law and Art Law and President of the Degree Programme in Political Science and International Relations at Universitas Mercatorum. After graduating with honours from Roma Tre University and completing a PhD in Private Law at the University of Palermo, he carried out research and teaching activities in Italy and abroad. He was a Visiting PhD Student at the University of Warwick, a researcher on the «Preserving Historical Buildings» project funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a «Blue Book Trainee» at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics.

His main research interests include the law of obligations and contracts, civil liability, private antitrust enforcement, adverse possession of works of art, performance art, and the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage. He is the author of three monographs and numerous articles published in national and international academic journals. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Legal Observatory for the Protection of Cultural Heritage at Roma Tre University and founder and editor-in-chief of the academic journal «Arte e Diritto», published by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre. He also hosts the podcast «Arte e Diritto» for the Universitas Mercatorum web radio.

The Scientific Committee of the «I Martedì dell’arte» series is composed of Professors Andrea Spiriti, Laura Facchin, Geo Magri, Marta Cenini and Massimiliano Ferrario.