Francesco Lietti is an Italian artist based in Hong Kong whose work explores the relationship between urban environments, spatial perception, and material construction. Drawing from his background in architecture, he develops paintings and mixed-media works that translate cities and landscapes into layered visual compositions shaped by rhythm, density, fragmentation, and structural form.
Over time, his practice has evolved from the direct observation of urban environments toward a broader investigation into the systems and spatial conditions that shape them. Layering, compression, repetition, and material depth have become central elements within works that move between painting, collage, and sculptural construction.
Living and working in Hong Kong continues to strongly influence this evolution. The city’s density, verticality, and coexistence of natural and built environments inform an artistic practice focused on spatial complexity, transformation, and the experience of contemporary space.
Selected Highlights
A curated selection of Francesco Lietti’s recent works, projects, studio updates, and latest news.
Featured Series
Urban Reveries returns to the panoramic city from a more distilled distance. These works reduce the urban landscape to its most recognisable essentials, balancing colour, rhythm, atmosphere, and structural form.
The series offers an immediate entry point into Francesco Lietti’s visual language, where the city becomes both memory and composition: familiar, layered, and unmistakably his own.
Hong Kong Has Said
75 × 60 cm | mixed media on canvas | 2025
Projects & Commissions
For Louis Vuitton’s Pacific Place store in Hong Kong, Francesco Lietti created two large-scale abstract cityscapes inspired by the façade patterns and vertical rhythms of the city’s architecture.
Built with layered plywood of varying thicknesses, the works bring depth, texture, and architectural presence into a luxury retail environment, demonstrating how contemporary art can become an integral part of spatial identity.
Studio Focus
Francesco Lietti is currently developing two abstract cityscapes on canvas, continuing his exploration of vertical rhythm, architectural mass, and the reduction of urban forms into elemental structures.
In these new works, buildings are stripped back to colour, proportion, and repeated geometric forms. The city becomes less a literal view than a constructed language of density, rhythm, and spatial presence.
Concurrent Frequencies 01
100 × 95 cm | mixed media on canvas | 2026
