 The prize announced his artistic debut among the new generation of up and coming artists and assured him his own studio on the top floor of Palazzo Carminati, at San Stae for eleven consecutive years, courtesy of the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.In the period immediately following the Second World War, Venice was one of the most active cultural centres in Italy, spurred in part by the highly influential arts movement Fronte Nuovo delle Arti.When Lucatello came to exhibit his works, the movement had already begun to run out of steam, although the rift between neo-realism and abstractionism (Pizzinato, Vedova) continued to rage
 
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