Yesterday, just in two galleries in Moscow opened an exhibition of contemporary Italian artists

Two exhibitions of contemporary Italian artists opened yesterday in Moscow.

The Gallery A3 residents of the capital and presented his paintings Melchior Napolitano . He was born in Palermo (Italy) in 1949, here he received artistic training and graduated from higher educational institution with a diploma of architect. Since 1973 Melchior taught painting at the State Art Lyceum city of Palermo. Since 1966 has participated in numerous collective and personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Its activities should be many critics and specialized publications. Works by artists in the various public and private collections in Italy and abroad. He currently lives and works in Palermo.

The exhibition, entitled «Letters. Signs of life », you can see paintings by the artist, executed on canvas. Inspired images of his native land - in Sicily, the author synthesized on the surface of the canvas original mosaic modules, the combination of which could be called «the return of the landscape».

Napolitano Melchior The exhibition can be visited from 6 to 15 March at Gallery A3 (Starokonyushenny trans., 39), daily except Mondays and Tuesdays, from 11.00 to 19.00.

gallery of K35 for the first time in Russia presents an exhibition Omar Gallyani , an Italian contemporary artist, widely known and recognized both at home, in Italy and abroad.

Portfolio Gallyani thrice participated in the International Biennale in Venice (1982, 1986, 2007), in numerous international exhibitions in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Prague, Lisbon, Mexico City, and in 2003 with works from the series «New Anatomy» he participated in the Beijing Biennale. Gallyani has awarded various prizes and awards, and in 2006 was selected as the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the sole representative of the Italian art in China.

Heir great tradition of Italian Renaissance masters of drawing such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Correggio, Gallyani uses a special technique: pencil or pastel, ink and gold leaf on a wooden board from poplar. Such a framework of wood was widely used in the art of the past, church altars made of the same technology. This material allows the pattern to reach the top celebrations «great art». Blackboard accounts sanded paper, and it seems that this pretreatment leads revive painted ordinary pencil person ...

Art Gallery in partnership with K35 Mazzotta Art Selection represents the first time in Moscow on 10 original works, which reveal the creative path passed Gallyani in his work the theme of women and men are an expression of sensual and spiritual strength, and the full meaning reveals the myth as a triumphant reality.

In the series «New Saints» «holiness» - this is reality, transmitted images of women discharged with a closed or semi-eye, depicting a sense of silent contemplation of an infinite universe.

In «New Anatomy» Gallyani interprets contrast corporeality and absolute vacuum - the contours of a pencil and a smooth transition to the pastels clean white board and head of the image as a nerve center of existence.

In diptychs «Mantra» next to the board coated with gold, is the person executed is pastel blue. Mantra - this is repeated a prayer, referring to the Indian meditation, the artist embodies it in two parts: plate, coated with gold on which are engraved skull and a cascade of flowers as a symbol of nature and spirit.

Unique Work «Great Italian figure», gave its name to the whole show, performed on a board size of 100 x 100. In 2005 on the basis of this sketch was a work of 5 x 6 meters, which is exhibited in Turin and earned comparisons with the face of the angel of Leonardo. The exhibition concludes with a section dedicated to graphics. This section presents the lithographic portfolio «daughter was naked» (2005). Ten erotic sites, numbered and signed by the author, show unconditional Gallyani skill in the technique of engraving on the stone - the art of the great masters of the past, such as Durer, Piranesi, Goya and Klinger.

The exhibition will run until April 15. Gallery Address: Savvinskaya Emb., 12/6M (between buildings clubs «1171» and SOHO ROOMS). Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12.00 - 20.00, admission free.

Source: a3.artfor . ru , museum.ru , artinvestment.ru