Lucrezia Pompa, known artistically as “Lucrezia Viperina”, was born in Rome in 1996, but soon moved with her family to Milan, where she still lives and works today. From an early age, her world has been filled with imagination and creativity, inherited from a family of artists.
After graduating from the Brera Art High School, she decided to continue her studies at the European Institute of Design (IED), attending the course in Illustration and Animation.
She graduated cum laude in Illustration in July 2019, having already participated successfully in several competitions and non-profit events with “Swatch” and “Flying Tiger”, and winning various awards, including one with “AMREF” for her contribution to education and raising awareness on sensitive topics.
Her goal is to connect and build strong collaborations across various fields—such as the music industry, creating multiple covers for artists like “Studio Murena”, “Daykoda”, and “Chandelier Studio”; the fashion world, collaborating with “Laboutik” in London and the Italian brand “Australian”; and the worlds of food and design, working with “Eataly”, “ApeCesare”, “Kartell”, “Creed”, “Acqua di Parma”, “Apple”, “BMW”, “Doppio Malto“ and “AWLAB”.
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Before “Lucrezia Viperina” there was a past filled with people, objects, forms, dreams, memories, and studies from my family, starting with my grandfather Gaetano Pompa, through to his children, including my father Adriano. That is why my art does not present a single essential object or explicit message. Instead, it unfolds through the union of multiple items, the coexistence of many facets that together spark life and motion. It is a place where everything fits perfectly, finding its space and feeling both included and free to express itself.
I am acutely aware of the complexity and occasional difficulty in reading my visual language. Yet one of my goals is for people to pause, just one minute longer, in front of one of my illustrations. Instead of merely glancing, they should study it. I don’t want to be just another piece of content to scroll past; I strive for art that invites reflection and stopping. My work and that of my fellow illustrators is to give the most profound, intimate part of ourselves. The key to reaching people’s hearts and the purpose of my work comes from exchange.
At times, I feel like an antagonist to my era a time defined by speed and technology, where quantity triumphs over quality. Perhaps this is precisely what drew me to the Turin-based publishing house “ADD Editore”: like me, they dedicate themselves with great care and study to sharing authentic stories rich with memories and testimonies.
I am deeply grateful to all the brands, people, and colleagues I have had the pleasure to work with; they give me every day the opportunity to enrich my complexity making it ever more precious.
