Let’s Get Lost is the theme of Lucca Art Fair 2026: an invitation to get lost as a conscious gesture, capable of opening up new perspectives of interpretation and experience.

The theme draws inspiration from the figure of the legendary jazz musician Chet Baker, whose biography is also connected to the city of Lucca, where he was imprisoned for a period in the early 1960s. This episode is taken symbolically as the starting point for a broader reflection on disorientation—not as loss, but as a generative and transformative condition.

​

Inspired by Chet Baker’s imagery and his Lucchese trajectory, Let’s Get Lost embraces disorientation as a device: suspending the automatism of perception and renegotiating the codes through which we read artworks, bodies, and cities, activating a form of estrangement—in the sense articulated by Viktor Shklovsky—that shifts expectations and restores attention to what habit tends to render invisible.

​

Lucca Art Fair 2026 thus takes shape as an open score, in which different voices, languages, and perspectives compose a dynamic and plural experience, capable of generating new trajectories of meaning and new ways of encountering artworks, audiences, and the city.