Omar Galliani

Omar Galliani
Born	1954 Montecchio Emilia, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	contemporary painter;
Movement	Empathism
Awards	Cilento International Poetry Prize (Arts Section)

Omar Galliani (Born to Montecchio Emilia, 1954) is an Italian painter and professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera of Milan. He is one of the member of the Empathic Movement (Empathism) and in 2023 received the Cilento International Poetry Prize (Arts Section).

Biography

Omar Galliani graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He taught as full professor of painting at the Brera Academy till he retired. In 1979, invited by Luciano Francalanci for the Italy section, he received the "Faber Castell Prize" at the I International Drawing Triennial at the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg. His works are present at the Biennale of Venice in 1982, 1984 and 1986, in the São Paulo Biennials in Brazil and in Paris, in contemporary art museums in Japan and at the Bradford Biennial 7th British International Print (1982). His works participate in prestigious exhibitions around the world and are included in the permanent collections of important museums, such as the GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin and the Museum national exhibition of China NAMOC in Beijing, together with works by Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. In 2018, Galliani donated one of his self-portraits to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the work was exhibited at the Vasari Auditorium and presented to the public by the director Eike Schmidt, before becoming part of the famous collection. In January 2019, the documentary A Matita? Omar Galliani, was produced, directed by Fulvio Wetzl and screened as a national preview at the Cristallo cinema in Reggio Emilia and after at the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Salerno, invited by Menotti Lerro. He received the Cilento International Poetry Prize in 2023. He joined the Empathic Movement in 2020.

Works

• Autoritratto, (2018), Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
• Lontano da Xian, (2016), NAMOC, Pechino
• Paesaggio dei miei veleni, (2014), Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, GAM, Torino
• Dal taccuino dei miei disegni orientali, Cafa Museum, Pechino (acquisizione 2012, n. inv. 12063)
• Nuovi Santi, Musei Vaticani, Città del Vaticano, Roma (acquisizione 2011, n. inv. 59925)
• Nuovi santi, Museo diocesano di Padova.
• Notturno (trittico), (2007), Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Firenze
• Mantra per Laura, (1997–98), Museo d'arte moderna di Bologna, MAMbo (acquisizione 2000)
• Ballerina, Camera dei deputati (Italia), Montecitorio, Roma, (acquisizione 1996, n. inv. 36919)
• Assunta, (1997) Museo diocesano (Reggio Emilia), Reggio Emilia, (acquisizione in occasione dell'evento nel Battistero di Reggio, 1997)
• Virgo Fidelis, Museo Diocesano, Loreto, (acquisizione 1995)
• Caripe, sede centrale, Pescara: ciclo di affreschi, (realizzazione 1992)
• Resurrezione, Museo di Stauros, Santuario di San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso, Teramo, (acquisizione 1995); Pala della Crocifissione
• Disegno, Fondazione Bracco, Milano, (acquisizione 1996)
• Cavaliere d'Ellisse, Villa Arson (museo di arte moderna), Nizza, (acquisizione 1985)
• Il rito dell'oro (Oroborus), Castello Gamba, Chatillon, Val D'Aosta, (acquisizione 1986)
• Notturna, (1984), Museo arte Gallarate MAGA, (acquisizione 1985), premio Nazionale Arti Visive città di Gallarate>
• La Ruota del Lotto, Pinacoteca, Jesi, (acquisizione 1981)
• Annunciazione, sede CartaSi, Milano, (acquisizione 1979)
• Inremeabilis error, Kunsthalle, Norimberga, (acquisizione 1978)

External links

• Official website