In Montechiarugolo an exhibition in memory of Massimiliano Galliani, an artist who died in 2020 at only 37 years old

Until December 11, 2022 at the Palazzo Civico in Montechiarugolo (Parma) is the exhibition Massimiliano Galliani, his space, his time, in memory of the artist Massimiliano Galliani, who died in 2020 at the age of only thirty-seven. Curated by Eleonora Frattarolo, it is produced by theartMacs Cultural Association together with the artist’s family in order to protect and promote his research.

About twenty-five works are exhibited to illustrate the different areas of Massimiliano Galliani’s research: from video art, witnessed by some video installations and the documentary Il Racconto di Luigi Ontani (section of the exhibition Luigi Ontani incontra Giorgio Morandi, Grizzana Morandi, Bologna, 2015), to the pictorial experiments of the LSDT cycle - Le Strade Del Tempo, related to the wrinkles surrounding the eyes of La Gioconda. From Reflection on Canvas, the oil reproduction of the reflected image of a subject facing a shiny black canvas, to the Rivers series, in which water, a metaphor for life, flows in gold leaf. And finally, her drawings, from which her inner world and tension toward the visible and invisible flows.

Also featured in the exhibition is Galactic Bat, designed by a little more than 17-year-old Maximilian, a lover of disguises and superheroes, for his mother Laura, an esteemed jewelry designer, who made it in gold, turquoise, rubies and lapis lazuli.

“Until 2020, the year of his passing, he draws a ripped diaphragm, what in Physics is called an ’extended present,’ an ’intermediate zone’ between the past and the future, a structure of spacetime, from which with anguish his face emerges, and animals, flowers, fragments of Nature, by means of a masterful stroke unveiled with singular lightness,” writes curator Eleonora Frattarolo. “I believe that Galliani gives form to what neuropsychiatrist Gianni Borgna calls ’the awareness that suffering is in any case the way to a transformation, the access to a new path,’ an ’initiation into an inner process, and not only as a disheartened life. But certainly by acting in this way he affirms his talent, his uniqueness, his character, his vocation.”

“We have chosen to close the 2022 exhibition season,” concludes Laura Scalvenzi, deputy mayor and alderman of the Municipality of Montechiarugolo, “with an exhibition dedicated to a great artist intimately linked to our territory, in which he had chosen to live with his affections. Our tribute to Massimiliano Galliani is a tribute to his research, history and artistic vision, and it is also a tribute from and for Montechiarugolo itself, which has the privilege of rediscovering and remembering, in this way, the bond, severed prematurely, with the artist.”

Hours: Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Special opening Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Free admission.

Image: Massimiliano Galliani, Through, detail (2018; pencil on paper, 60 x 42 cm)

In Montechiarugolo an exhibition in memory of Massimiliano Galliani, an artist who died in 2020 at only 37 years old

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