Davide Galbiati

“The richness of the Italian Province lies in its constant will and capacity to look through transalpine and transoceanic experiences. It studies the avant-gardes and offers a new reading of its motivations in the light of the Greco-Roman culture, the Renaissance or even of the mystifying 19th century.” Galbiati is both a son of his time and an heir of the South Tyrolean tradition of wood carving. This broad background thus enables him to make unpredictable figures of gigantic sizes and to develop an American neorealist style. Let’s imagine a far-distant look on things which both becomes a cultural enrichment and an incentive to new experiments. A look which allows visions directed towards a new language but also towards a widening of knowledge obviously helping to build the Artist’s history. Then, Galbiati can go beyond the thin border-as thin as the blade of a chisel, which existed between woodcraft industry and wood carving by putting the craft to the highest level of creativity. We’re here presented with the learning path of an Artist on the threshold of his maturity. Being a past master at wood carving, he’s brilliant when unveiling the beautiful veins of bodies, sharp when drawing his first lines, “plastic” and moving when working clay.

Prof. Emiddio Pietraforte

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Career


2004 to 2008

Training at the Professional Institute of Sculpture of Ortisei, Val Gardena, Bolzano (Italy) (Berufsschule für das Kunsthandwerk/Gröden), with the following masters:
GEHARD DEMETZ, BRUNO WALPOTH, ANDREAS TOMASINI, PICCOLRUAZ HELMUTH GEBHARD

Improvement training in drawing and modeling of the human body at the Ferdinand Demetz Art Institute of Ortisei, Val Gardena, Bolzano (I) with the following masters:
ANTII RUBEN DA CUDAN, MARKUS DELAGO, ROLAND SE NONER, ARNOLD HOLZKNECHT

2006 to 2007

Improvement training in life drawing at the beaux-arts academy of Bologna (I) with the Professor Alberto Lolli

Learning

2008: Sacred Arts workshop with Ferdinand Stuflesser 1875 at Ortisei, Val Gardena, Bolzano (I)
2007: workshop with the artist Hermann Josef Runggaldier - Ortisei, Val Gardena, Bolzano (I)
2006: Learning at the HEIDE workshop in Pontives, Val Gardena, Bolzano (I)