Daniele Galliano brings twelve of his recent landscape works to an exhibition in Milan

Galleria Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea in Milan presents Daniele Galliano ’s solo exhibition entitled Pitture visitable from March 6 until April 24, 2024. The exhibition, where twelve of his recent works will be on display, follows the great success of the project presented at ArteFiera Bologna It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, a title inspired by the famous Bob Dylan song written in 1965, which emphasizes the inevitability of change and the need to cling to the important things in life. This feeling of rapidity that the artist perceives in human existence can also be found in the instinctive brushstrokes that vibrate on his canvases, like rhythmic gestures reminiscent of an orchestra conductor’s commands, releasing vibrant touches of color. Daniele Galliano’s painting explores the intimate sphere and collective life, made up of rituals, raves, processions. The protagonist is the crowd, not conceived as a uniform mass, but as individuals who choose to share collective experiences.

While in the exhibition in Bologna the artist focused mainly on groups of people, here Galliano explores the landscape in a physical and spiritual dimension, discovering in places of serenity a possible illusion of peace and comfort. As in Untitled, a view of a snowy landscape where the only presence of man is witnessed by a shelter in the distance, at the same time a goal to be achieved. In these landscapes the artist almost reaches abstraction, thanks in part to his gestural brushstrokes, contrasting the physicality of a place with its idealization. Galliano argues that an empathetic gaze at what surrounds us is the best way to connect the inner universe with the outer world. The exhibition is therefore meant to be an invitation to rediscover and search for those places to which one can travel with the mind or physically, in order to find inner calm, whether they are real or unreal places. The culmination of abstraction is reached with Do you remember, where the sequence of images is erased, as if it were a storyboard of which the rhythmicity of a sequence remains but not the content of it.

The exhibition can be visited Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. and by appointment.

Notes on the artist

Daniele Galliano was born in Pinerolo in 1961; self-taught, he began painting in Turin in the early 1990s, soon earning a prominent place in the new painting scene. With his photographic realism, he exhibits in major solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 2006 he participated in the 9th Havana Biennale at the invitation of Antonio Zaia, in 2009 in the 53rd Venice Biennale, and in 2016 in the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India. His numerous solo exhibitions include those in 1996 and 1997 at Galleria Annina Nosei (New York), in 1992 and 1994 at Galleria InArco (Turin) and in 1996 at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome). Group exhibitions include the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, the XII Quadriennale in Rome, the Galleria Civica in Trento, the Rupertinum Museum in Salzburg, the Magasin in Grenoble and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena.

His works can be found in some of the major public and private collections, such as GAM - Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, MART in Trento and Rovereto, Museo del Novecento in Milan, Unicredit Private Banking Collection in Milan, Cerruti Collection (Turin), Francesca Lavazza Collection (Turin), Carlo Monzino Collection (Milan), Dutch Pieter & Marieke (Netherlands) and Robert & Annemijn Crince Le Roy (Netherlands).

Image: Daniele Galliano, Untitled (2021; oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm)

Daniele Galliano brings twelve of his recent landscape works to an exhibition in Milan

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