Giorgio Galli Biography
Giorgio Galli (1958 - ) was born in Rome in 1958. His works are present in public and private collections; lives and works between Rome and Genzano. From a very young age he frequented the Roman artistic environment, he met Schifano, Angeli, Festa, but unlike the young people of the Piazza del Popolo School, more oriented towards pop figuration, he rediscovered the artistic methods of the ancients. He thus studies the ancient techniques of fresco and encaustic, recovering them for our current sensitivity. In 1997 he founded a group called "Neo Astrazione Romana" in Rome with other artists. Giorgio Galli's iconography develops with the observation of the great masters of Italian and international informal art, he looks to Tàpies but also to the Italian Giuseppe Uncini, with a look towards Rauschenberg's New Dada who with his Combine Paintings recovers the '"Object Trouvèe" ennobling it as a work of art. He thus recovers waste objects such as old dynamos, withered flowers, rusty iron wires by applying them on panels with a monochrome background composed of mixtures of chalk, ash, oil, pastels and pencils on honeycomb wood in which crosses, arrows, graffiti and curved areas such as handles stand out , archetypes of an archaic and tribal language known and recorded in his multiple travels on the African continent. The painter's objective is to question certain certainties and convey doubts to the viewer so that important themes can be talked about.
