ABOUT GIUSEPPE GALLIZIOLI

Giuseppe Gallizioli was born in Brescia on January 18, 1935, in the paternal house on Via Lazzaretto, where he still lives and works today. His education, outside of school and current trends, went through phases of research that led him to observe, understand, and follow techniques and expressive modes that could be drawn from the European informal art movement during the 1950s and 1960s. His first solo exhibition took place in 1960 (Brescia, Galleria Alberti).

In 1969, he was awarded a scholarship for a graphic arts course in Germany, at Wolfsburg, at the Druckwerkstatt Schlob.

That year, he joined the "Phase" movement, which was spreading from Paris throughout Europe. Meanwhile, his travels intensified: to Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. Since 1975, he has repeatedly spent summers on the island of Cherso (Croatia), alternating rest and work.

These island stays led to new thematic interests, bringing the sea as a third element into his paintings, alongside earth and sky.

From the beginning, he has simultaneously produced watercolors, tempera paintings, pastels, etchings, and drawings. He illustrated the story Incendio di legna vecchia by Carlo Dossi, for the "Il Melangolo" editions, 1981.

A monograph has been published: Pomeriggi navigare, Italibri editions, directed by Elena Messori with a presentation by Prof. Pasquale Maffeo (Correggio 1994), along with various covers for the Editrice Queriniana editions.

There have been numerous exhibitions throughout Italy and abroad, with several prestigious awards granted to him (Micheletti, Pasini, among others).

His work is widely referenced in bibliographies. In 1976, the monograph Giuseppe Gallizioli, Grafo Edizioni, Brescia, was published, with texts in Italian and French by Elvira Cassa Salvi and Edouard Jaguer.

Since 1978, his production has been included in almost all the art directories and annuals of painting in Italy and abroad.

He is featured in the Dictionnarie Général du Surréalisme et de ses environs by Adam Biro and René Passeron, Ed. Office du Livre 1982. He is also present in Storia dell’arte italiana del ‘900 generazioni anni Trenta by Giorgio Di Genova, Edizioni Bora, Bologna 1990. Re Rotari, Poema Medioevale, translated by Renate Scalmana Roos.

Some of his works have been reproduced on the covers of various texts: La collina, edited by Inisero Cremaschi, Ed. Nord 1980; L’élite des journalistes by Rémy Rieffel, Ed. Press Universitaires De France, 1984; Alla ricerca del filo con la vita by Anna Oliva De Cesarei, Ed. Franco Angeli 2010; Oikos, a quarterly journal for an ecology of ideas, Enzo Tiezzi, Ed. Ekoclub International 2000; Riflessione sull’immagine, Elvira Cassa Salvi, Edizioni La Quadra 1999; L’anello mancante, figurations in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, Domenico Guzzi, Editori Laterza.

He has created several murals and decorative panels for private homes.

Giuseppe Gallizioli’s painted shoes are exhibited at the "Shoes Or No Shoes?" Museum in Kruishoutem (Belgium).

In 2001, he completed seven panels, Il giorno e la notte, La primavera di Venere, at the villa of Giulio Bargellini in Pieve di Cento, entrepreneur and president of the “Arte 900” Bargellini Museum.

From 2000 to 2007, he continued his artistic path with the theme of the sea and the woods, frequently visiting the Greek and Croatian islands. In his home-studio, he paints gardens and his land.

His recent exhibitions have been highlighted by Domenico Montalto (Avvenire), Fausto Lorenzi (Giornale di Brescia), Gianpietro Giuotto and Mauro Corradini (Bresciaoggi), and Giorgio Cortenova (Corriere della Sera).