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GIAN LUCA GALAVOTTI - Italy -
At least think of me
Kiss me again
oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm
oil on canvas cm 40 x 40
We are the World
New York
oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm
oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm
The palette of Curno1 and 2
Nobody wants to be Robin
oil on two canvases 80 x 40 cm
oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm
His Biography
Born in Modena in 1967, Gian Luca Galavotti has been painting since childhood with curiosity and an innate skill typical of an artist. In 2004, thanks to a commission, "Nuvole blu" was created; a work that gave Luca the awareness of his own talent.
Luca, as when he was a child, always paints for passion; his works and his artistic project, called "chicchiderba", are in continuous evolution with a constant growth of appreciation from critics and art enthusiasts.
Since 2006, he has exhibited his oil paintings in numerous solo exhibitions, participated in Art Fairs (New York, Paris, Bergamo, Milan, Genoa, Forlì, and Beijing), and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad (London, Berlin, Barcelona). His works have been published in various publications (art catalogs such as CAM and Senazioni Artistiche, magazines such as ARTE, etc.).
Cristian Riva
CURRICULUM
2019
- MILAN - group exhibition “MegaArt” at Galleria SpazioPorpora – Nov. 2019
- TURIN – “PARATISSIMA” Fair, Wikiarte Gallery stand – Oct. / Nov. 2019
- MIRANDOLA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Il Giardino dei Pendenti - Sept. / Oct. 2019- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “Luca” at Galleria Wikiarte- NOVARA – exhibition of Finalists “18th City of Novara Prize”
- TOKYO – Fair “TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR” Wikiarte stand
- MIRANDOLA – solo exhibition “Paintings & Flowers” at Il Giardino dei Pendenti
- MONTICHIARI – Fair “EXPOARTE” stand Galleria Wikiarte
2018
- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “A World of Color” at Galleria Wikiarte - Nov. 2018
- CESENA – Art Fair “CONTEMPORARY” NeoArtGallery stand – Oct. 2018
- ROME – group exhibition “My Colors” at Galleria Pocket Art Studio – Jul. 2018
- PAVIA – Fair “PAVIART” stand Galleria Wikiarte – May 2018
- NEW YORK – Fair “ARTEXPO NEW YORK” stand Galleria Wikiarte – Apr. 2018
- BERGAMO – “BAF – BERGAMO ART FAIR” stand Galleria Wikiarte – Jan. 2018
2017
- MILAN – Fair “GRANDART” stand Galleria Wikiarte
- ROME – group exhibition “Present & Future – Just across the street”
at the museum MACRO Testaccio – Spazio Factory La Pelanda- NEW YORK – Fair “ARTEXPO NEW YORK” stand Galleria Wikiarte
- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “Free to go” at Galleria Wikiarte2016
- MILAN – group exhibition “Milan Art Collection” at Galleria Spazio E
- BERGAMO – “BAF – BERGAMO ART FAIR” stand Galleria Wikiarte
- NEW YORK – Fair “ARTEXPO NEW YORK” stand Galleria Wikiarte
2015
- BERGAMO – “BAF – BERGAMO ART FAIR” stand Galleria Wikiarte
- CONCORDIA SULLA SECCHIA – solo exhibition “Zona Rossa” at Fotostudio Immagini
- PROVIDENCE (USA) – group exhibition “Artistic Sensations”
- NEW YORK – Fair “ARTEXPO NEW YORK”
2014
- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba”- FLORENCE – group exhibition “Artistic Sensations” at Galleria Mentana
- ALBENGA – group exhibition “Artistic Sensations”
- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Arte Fiera “THE JAMBO ART”
- GENOA – Fair “ARTE GENOVA” at the Wikiarte Gallery stand
2013
- REGGIO EMILIA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Arte Fiera “VERNICE”- MILAN – group exhibition “Artistic Sensations” at Teatro Nuovo
- ROME – group exhibition “Coexistences” at RossoCinabro Gallery
- FLORENCE – group exhibition “Artistic Sensations” at Galleria Mentana
- BERGAMO – Solo exhibition Winner “9th G.B. MORONI Trophy” at Artemisia Gallery
- ROME – group exhibition “I – implied subject” at Galleria RossoCinabro
- LONDON – group exhibition “The picture and the dream” at Birla Millennium Art Gallery
- BOLOGNA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Galleria Wikiarte- GENOA – Fair “ARTE GENOVA” at the Wikiarte Gallery stand
- BERGAMO – exhibition of Finalists “9th G.B. MORONI Trophy”
2012
- BOLOGNA – group exhibition “E = mc2” at Galleria Wikiarte
- BARCELONA – group exhibition “Doble Show“ at Crisolart Galleries
- CAERANO DI SAN MARCO (TREVISO) – group exhibition “Art Encounters”
- BOLOGNA – group exhibition “Street View” at Spazio San Giorgio gallery
- FORLI’ – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Arte Fiera “VERNICE”
- CESENATICO – “Cesenatico Artists Collective”
- FLORENCE – exhibition of Finalists “XXIX Florence Prize”2011
- LONDON – group exhibition “ArtItaly in London”
- MIRANDOLA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Chiesa SS.Sacramento
- BERLIN – group exhibition “Grosse Berlin 2011”
- BRUSSELS – exhibition of Finalists “Tokyo Prize 2011”
- SORANO – group exhibition “Strolling through Art”
- TURIN – Expocasa 2011 – group exhibition “Italian Art in The World”
- ROME – exhibition of Finalists “VIII Open Art Prize”
2010
- PITIGLIANO – “ArtExpò 010”
- FUCECCHIO – exhibition of Finalists “Premio Arte X 2010”
- BEIJING – 13th INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR – World Trade Center
- FANO – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Art Gallery Santa Teresa
- SPA (BELGIUM) – group exhibition “City of Spa Gold Medal Award 2010”
- RIJEKA (CROATIA) – group exhibition “Grand Tour”
- BERGAMO – group exhibition “Art in Bloom”
- GUBBIO – group exhibition “Gubbio by the sea 2010”
- TAORMINA – group exhibition “Emotion”
- BERGAMO – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Hotel San Giorgio
- CESENATICO – “Cesenatico Artists Collective”
- STUTTGART – exhibition of the finalists of the “Syrlin International Artprize 2010” competition
at Arte Fiera “ANTIK & KUNST”
2009
- LONDON – group exhibition “ART IN MIND” at The Brick Lane Gallery
- BERGAMO – exhibition of Finalists “6th G.B. MORONI Trophy”
- FORLI’ – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Arte Fiera “CONTEMPORANEA”- PARIS – Art Fair “ART SHOPPING” - CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE- TURIN – group exhibition “Arteinsieme” (Santa Rita Academy) at Villa La Tesoriera
- SANTA SEVERA (ROME) – Finalists exhibition “Astarte Prize” at the Castle of Santa Severa MARINO (ROME) – “Dialogues” at the Civic Museum “Umberto Mastroianni”
- MILAN – group exhibition “Art/chitecture & Urban Landscape”
- CESENATICO – “Cesenatico Artists Collective”
2008
- FORLI’ – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Arte Fiera “CONTEMPORANEA”- CESENA – group exhibition “ADARC – Association of Cesena Artists”
- LAZISE – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at Sala Civica Comunale
- BERGAMO – group exhibition “Twenty Flowers Twenty Authors” at New Artemisia Gallery
- CESENATICO – “Cesenatico Artists Collective”
2007
- BERGAMO – group exhibition “Christmas 2007” at New Artemisia Gallery
- TREVISO – group exhibition “The Paths of Art”
- MIRANDOLA – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at SS. Sacramento church
- PACENGO di LAZISE – solo exhibition “Chicchiderba” at the Municipal Civic Hall2006
- CORREGGIO – group exhibition “San Quirino Fair” (Artists' Circle of Reggio Emilia)
The Critique
He claims to paint for passion and the overwhelming and strong “pathos” characterizes and involves all his artistic production, from the most recent works to the primitive ones from his early days as an artist.
Sunflower, the Padon series and not least the ironic Donald Duck, are some of the beautiful works born from the inventiveness of Gian Luca Galavotti, a self-taught painter but already mature in content and in the thematic choices drawn from his personal life experience as a man and as an artist, and mindful of unique and intimate memories.
The most significant moments and views are captured on canvas and deliberately represented in the foreground, almost to emphasize the “mysterious” importance held within them, perhaps never fully knowable to us, preserved in the author’s memory.
The painter synthesizes in well-defined and at the same time essential volumes the detail of a landscape, a naturalistic detail, and the evocative effect, admirably pursued, of day and night.
The technique of clearly defined color fields clarifies the volumetric form of the Greek domes and at the same time enhances them through the thoughtful and calibrated use of light and shadow. The bold, bright, and vivid colors sharply define the contours of the forms and sometimes take up space and prevail over them to the point of becoming dominant, making a subject that appears simple and commonly everyday exclusive and unique.
In the clear and bright sky, warm Mediterranean landscapes, exotic Mexican glimpses, and fairytale-like grains of wheat stand out, almost “magically” lifted by the wind, in an almost allegorical and fantastic dimension.
Within them take shape the artist’s inner emotions, a world of tensions and spiritual vibrations that attract the viewer’s attention and resonate like a concert in the soul of the observer. The emotion evoked by the image seems to continue, like the image itself, beyond the boundaries of the canvas and reaches such an intensity that it will never be lost.
Pasqua Dr. Enrica
Art Historian
Bergamo 28.11.2007
They are stolen moments of memory (like photographs) that leave those who approach the figure with a total and personal continuity in the interpretation of the subject.
From a roof, from a bale of hay, from a pier (all solitary), each of us can continue the journey by completing with our memories the image we are admiring. Few people can have the privilege of filling the voids.
Aldebaran
The art of making perceptible – visible and audible – that marginal element which only interests peripheral attention but becomes the fulcrum of the holistic experience, engages all the work of Gian Luca Galavotti. Just as 8Hz are not audible unless involved in a binaural tonal execution at 432 Hz, so a determining cognitive attractor – like the red of a dress or the exclamation point of a sentence – cannot be defined as such unless zoomed into its context so as to highlight its essentiality. Galavotti carries out this process not only through targeted magnification, but also through a chromatic depletion of the depiction. The contrast highlights the divergent elements and defines the forms. But without the binary melody, the golden frequency would never reach our ear, and without the summary and monochrome contextualization, the point of color would never emerge to our eye. Thus highlighted, the single element becomes the object of infinite interpretations and re-contextualizations, because from a simple punctuation mark it has been transformed – thanks to creative intervention – into a pheromone of storytelling.
Denitza Nedkova
June 2019
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