“La pratica dell’arte. Il futuro è possibile” (The practice of Art. The future is possible) is the title of an exhibition of the works of Giorgio Galli organised by the Italian Consulate General and the Italian Institute of Culture of Sao Paulo, in cooperation with the government of the State of Parana. The exhibition was opened on March 7 in the Government Building by Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Raffaele Trombetta, and Governor of the State of Parana, Beto Richa. The show will run until May 31. Galli, a multi-faceted artist and a member of Roman artistic circles, studied the old fresco and encaustic techniques, introducing them with an innovative spirit into contemporary art.
“The practice of Art. The future is possible”
His works are a synthesis between Informalism and Neo-Dada. Galli uses cinder mixed with colour and newspaper as the indispensable elements of his art. In 1997, along with other artists, he founded the “new Roman abstraction” group and exhibited his works in Italy and abroad. His pieces, to be found in several public and private collections, often represent painted walls, blurred and violated by historical events, but becoming the repositories of dreams, nightmares, tragedies, expectations and phantoms of memory. The wall itself becomes the tragic surface of history, made up of the skin and flesh of humanity. At the core of Galli’s aesthetic experience, there is always an ethical and political reflection on the man’s existential condition. The artist lives and works in Rome and Genzano.
