Sensitive Surfaces: MICHELANGELO GALLIANI

Galliani grasps inspiration from the classics and manipulateit with a singular narrative power; his work is a continuous inquiry ofthe traditional western classic form. On combining materials that differ in texture, colours and weight, the artist creates a dialogue of opposing experiences exploring dichotomies matters such the sacred and profane, man and women, pain and pleasure. The artist effortlessly catches the real soul of the subjects integrating them with an expressive syntax. 

Galliani’s sculptures employ the ‘non finito’ (unfinished) technique, his purposefully aesthetic choice accepts to be un-complete, interrupted by the doubt, intently broken and threatened by deterioration. The pieces make them resemble recently discovered antique sculptures however their dramatic expressions ensure that they appearcomplete to the viewer.  

The exhibition shows a painful fable that is delivered dramatically through the form of this plastic disequilibrium: nails that drill the immovable skin of the marble transfer on it the human emotional self-injuries; half faces completed only by their own reflection; the transfiguration of the fractured depicted subjects: man and woman = broken segments; the mask of personalities; the broken heart and its infinite search for their other half.