Untitled

Details

Giuseppe Gallo (b. 1954)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘Giuseppe Gallo 2002’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78¾ x 86 5/8in. (200 x 220cm.)
Executed in 2002

Provenance

Galleria Giardino, Valenza.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Literature

W. Guadagnini & L. Pratesi, Vis à Vis. Collezioni si incontrano, Milan 2006 (illustrated in colour, p.30).

Exhibited

Paris, Gallerie di Meo, Foglie, foglie e foglie, 2003-2004 (illustrated, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Cosenza, Galleria Brunella Bruno, L'ermetica bellezza.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further Details

This work is accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist.

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Lot Essay

“There is no background in Gallo’s paintings; a sort of impermeable wall restrains the duels of signs that explode on the surface, drawn with colors that remind us of abstract heights of outer space, dizzying depths of the sea. The painting becomes the theater of enactment of an archaic struggle between forces destined to never be stilled, between energies that be evoked but never blocked. This is why the artist uses a language between the organic and the figural, between the informal and suspected representation”.

Achille Bonito Oliva

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