Massimiliano Galliani obituary by curator Vera Agosti

Curator and art historian Vera Agosti remembers Italian artist Massimiliano Galliani, who died after a long illness. Galliani, son of renowned artist Omar Galliani, initially set aside painting and drawing to distinguish himself from his father's poetics, but later returned to them. His final solo exhibition "Attraverso" was held at Salamon Fine Art in Milan after the lockdown, accompanied by a monograph "Attraverso l'arte" published by Prearo Editore. The monograph covers his work from the fusion of painting and multimedia (LSDT-Le strade del tempo, the craquelé of Leonardo's Mona Lisa) to black portraits and gold rivers (Vita), culminating in the refined purity of drawing. Agosti describes Galliani as humble, discreet, and kind, an artist until the end who depicted a perfect, spotless world.