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| OMAR GALLIANI: GREAT ITALIAN DRAWING inaugurazione 13 dicembre 2007 | schoeni art gallery | hong kong Organized by the Gallery Spazio Mazzotta in collaboration with Galleria d’arte Soave, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, presents the exhibition Omar Galliani: Great Italian Drawing. Technically, Galliani uses pencil, pastel and ink in his works, employing the same classic skills of chiaroscuro and sfumato as his forebears Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Tiziano and Michelangelo. Yet through his exploration of form recessing into the canvas, Galliani somehow manages to pluck soulfulness out of the 2 dimensional obscurity of the canvas. Many of Omar Galliani’s subjects are young women, although his collection does include a few portraits of young men – the faces of his subject matter are at times overlaid with expressive markings or “tattoos”, which creates the impression of veiling form with an otherworldly layer, lending texture and substance to an already realistic image. Through such experimentation, Galliani injects sensuality into his expressive force, drawing together emotion, eroticism, thought, reflection and a sense of infinite contemplation into the expression and stature of his figuration. Galliani’s devotion to the medium of drawing is obviously at the fore of his immaculate pieces, and in the tradition of Leonardo’s dedication to perfection in pictorial form; one can sense the artist’s relentless pursuit of the art of excellence. A great proportion of Galliani’s works comprise portraits of faces – an anatomical region which both eastern and western traditions and ideologies have understood as being the window to the personality, and indeed the soul. In fact, some deem such a perfect representation of the human form as sinful, and yet Galliani’s works emit a saintly glow of bliss and serenity, much like one would sense from a religious icon with its beatific radiance of sublime enlightenment and spirituality. Recalling the sacred and transforming the physical into the esoteric is a rare act of artistic transubstantiation, and it is through Galliani’s study and movement through the realms of dream and shadow that such divine talent and creativity emerge. Mystical wisdom, contemporary subject matter and silhouettes of private meditative force tremble with the light and dark contrasts that span human psychology and spirit to present humanity in still entirety. Omar Galliani: Great Italian Drawing dal 14 dicembre 2007 al 12 gennaio 2008 Schoeni Art Gallery 21-31 Old Bailey Street Central, Hong Kong T. 852 28698802 – F. 852 25221528 gallery@schoeni.com.hk www.schoeni.com.hk www.omargalliani.it La mostra è stata organizzata dalla Galleria Spazio Mazzotta, Foro Buonaparte 60, Milano in collaborazione con la Galleria d’arte Soave, via S. Francesco d’Assisi 14, Alessandria
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