Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Daniele Galliano's solo exhibition entitled "Paintings", which presents twelve recent works. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 6 March and will be open to visitors until 24 April 2024, from Tuesday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm (and by appointment).
The exhibition 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 underlines the inevitability of change and the need to hold on to the important things of life. One line of the song describes an "empty-handed painter" who draws seemingly random sketches, symbolizing the unpredictability of nature and suggesting ("You must leave now, take what you need you think will last") to grab things quickly important before they slip away. This sensation of speed that the artist perceives in human existence is also found in the instinctive brushstrokes that vibrate on his canvases, like rhythmic gestures that recall the commands of an orchestra conductor, releasing lively touches of color. The dense and blurry painting emerges from a background, from which the artist begins to paint and then expands through various chromatic gradations that overlap, changing and mixing the color, invading the space of the canvas, with a tension that almost reaches the outside of its physical edges, invading the surrounding space. Daniele Galliano's painting has always explored 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.
If in the Bolognese exhibition the artist's attention was focused on groups of people, with this exhibition Galliano finds in the landscape a new physical and spiritual dimension to deal with, thanks to those places that lead him to discover a sense of serenity and of illusion that this can exist, thanks to those landscapes in which it is possible to find comfort. As in "Untitled", a view of a snowy landscape where the only presence of man is evidenced by a refuge in the distance, at the same time a goal to be achieved and a symbol of inner peace. In these landscapes the artist almost reaches abstraction, thanks also to his gestural brushstrokes, contrasting the physicality of a place with the idealization of it. Different visions are thus created: up close the work appears abstract, but from a distance it manifests itself in its reality. This is not just a formal choice, but a statement that suggests that a distant view of the world can offer a clearer perception. Galliano claims that an empathetic look towards what surrounds us is the best way to connect the inner universe with the external world. The exhibition is therefore an invitation to rediscover and seek those places to which you can travel mentally or physically, to find inner calm, no matter 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 rhythm of a sequence remains but not its content.

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    Daniele Galliano