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_module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;19px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Narrative biography<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]Narrative biography <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davide Galbiati is an Italian sculptor artist who graduated from the Professional School of Sculpture in Ortisei -South Tyrol, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since his very childhood, he\u2019s been taught the magic of craftsmanship and the intelligence of the hand by his father and uncles. The family business was specialised in the restoration of vintage cars and the making of luxury car prototypes, thus teaching him how to work with form and volume in metal, as well as to be in search for the detail and the line. It was only natural that he became a restorer after he had graduated.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were precious years, which had a deep effect on him, awakening his artistic spontaneity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He discovered sculpture thanks to his meeting with two Italian artists, Giovanni Padovan and Mauro Corona. This was a revelation to him. He was facing something both familiar and forgotten, both lost then retrieved. He decided to leave the family business and entered the Professional School of Sculpture of the Dolomites.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trained by artists Bruno Walpoth, Gehard Demetz and Andreas Tomasini in wood sculpture and modelling, he specialised in live figure drawing and modelling with the artists Antii Ruben da Cudan, Markus Delago et Arnold Holzknecht. He also studied artistic anatomy with Alberto Lolli (professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy and co-editor of Struttura Uomo). <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Encouraged by his teachers, in 2007 he took part in the &#8220;Premio Arte&#8221; in Milan, with his first work in concrete. He was awarded the Scultura Accademia prize. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After completing his studies, he attended the workshops of sculptors Luciano Gabrielli and Mauro Baldessari, with whom he worked on a major monumental sculpture project for the Cathedral of Betterliving in Manila.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President of the sculpture section of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale de Beaux Arts de Paris, winner of the Prix Puvis de Chavannes and Gold Medal for Sculpture in 2016, Davide Galbiati has an international reputation. His works can be found in private collections in the United States, France, England, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands. He regularly exhibits in France and England in various galleries, as well as in solo and group shows.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.davidegalbiati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/studio-davide-galbiati22.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;studio-davide-galbiati22&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;19px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Artistic approach<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the artist, the theme of the mind-body connection has existed since the dawn of time and is set to last forever. Faithful to that line, Davide Galbiati is seeking a plastic language based on simple yet singular forms which both evoke ancestral peoples and civilisations living in a sidereal future. He exalts the human aura to make the invisible visible. He draws his inspiration from the work of ancient sculptors such as Thoutm\u00f4sis-sculptor of the pharaoh Akhenaton, and archaic Greek sculptures. The artist nurtures the burning desire to confront the clamour of the world to the vibrant silence of stillness. He gets away from the dynamic contortions of the Baroque or neo-classical sculptures to embrace the telluric calmness of the ancient Pharaohs. Davide Galbiati leads us to sculpture through the path of silence.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;19px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Group exhibitions<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>2024<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salon des Beaux Arts -R\u00e9fectoire des Cordeliers &#8211; Paris 6<br \/>IMA 50th -Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum &#8211; Japan<br \/>Kelly Miller Art Gallery &#8211; Brighton &#8211; Uk<br \/>Salon des Beaux Arts &#8211; Orangerie du S\u00e9nat &#8211; Jardin du Luxembourg &#8211; Paris 6<br \/>Galerie Maznel &#8211; Saint-Val\u00e9ry-sur-Somme<br \/>Lille Art Up &#8211; Galerie Jardin d&#8217;hiver<br \/>Salon Comparaison &#8211; Grand Palais\u00a0 Eph\u00e9m\u00e8re &#8211;\u00a0 Paris<\/p>\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<p>Intervallum &#8211; Avec Patrice Poutout &#8211; 84110 S\u00e9guret<br \/>Salon National des Beaux Arts, R\u00e9fectoire des Cordeliers &#8211; Paris<br \/>Galerie Eph\u00e9m\u00e8re, Montmartre &#8211; Paris<\/p>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<p>Salon M\u00e9tamorphose &#8211; Paris<br \/>Salon Terre &amp; Flamme &#8211; Chantepie<\/p>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<p>Art Geo, Bicentenaire de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale de G\u00e9ographie &#8211; Paris<br \/>Galerie Elsa Sculpteur &#8211; Barg\u00e8me<br \/>Expo duo Galbiati\/Fi\u00e8vre, Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Ardelay &#8211; Les Herbiers<\/p>\n<p>2020<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa Graine et la Mer\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Mus\u00e9e Subaquatique de Marseille \u2013 exposition permanente<br \/>Galerie Maznel \u2013 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme<br \/>Galerie Beukenhof &#8211; Kluisbergen &#8211; Belgique<\/p>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9tamorphose \u2013 Halle des Blancs Manteaux &#8211; Paris<br \/>&#8220;Voyage Int\u00e9rieur&#8221; &#8211; Galerie Elsa Sculpteur &#8211; Barg\u00e8me<br \/>&#8220;Out of the dark&#8221; \u2013 Kellie Miller Art Gallery &#8211; Brighton &#8211; UK<br \/>&#8220;Horizons&#8221; \u2013 avec Catherine Duch\u00eane &#8211; Gigondas<\/p>\n<p>2018<br \/>M\u00e9tamorphose \u2013 Halle des Blancs Manteaux &#8211; Paris<br \/>Salon National des Beaux Art\u2013 Carrousel du Louvre &#8211; Paris<br \/>Biennale &#8220;Cercle de Saint-L\u00e9onard&#8221; \u2013 Saint-L\u00e9onard Noblat<br \/>&#8220;Ames de b\u00e9ton, Silence primal, Cicatrice d\u2019humanit\u00e9&#8221; \u2013 All\u00e8gre, Poutout, Galbiati \u2013 Maison de Fogasse \u2013 Avignon<br \/>&#8220;Entr\u00e9e en mati\u00e8re&#8221; \u2013 avec Yoyo Ich \u2013 Domaine Saint Martin \u2013 Suzette<\/p>\n<p>2017<br \/>Salon National des Beaux Art \u2013 Caroussel du Louvre \u2013 Paris<br \/>Corpo e anima Atelier Galerie Eva Vermeerbergen \u2013 S\u00e9guret<br \/>Avec Lionel Borla \u2013 Sept\u00e8me \u2013 les \u2013 Vallons<br \/>Art Castel \u2013 Mouans Sartoux<br \/>Cath\u00e9drale de la Haute Ville \u2013 Vaison-la-Romaine<br \/>Salle des Ursulines \u2013 Buis-les-Baronnies<br \/>Galerie du Temple \u2013 Lourmarin<\/p>\n<p>2016<br \/>Salon National des Beaux Art \u2013 Caroussel du Louvre \u2013 Paris<br \/>Prince &amp; Princess Galery \u2013 Paris<br \/>Kellie Miller Art Gallery \u2013 Brighton<br \/>Art Castel \u2013 Mouans Sartoux<br \/>Chapelle du coll\u00e8ge- Carpentras<\/p>\n<p>2015<\/p>\n<p>Art en Capital, Grand Palais \u2013 Paris<br \/>Parcourt de l\u2019Art \u2013 Mus\u00e9e du Petit Palais- Avignon<\/p>\n<p>2014<\/p>\n<p>Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me B. \u2013 Arcachon<br \/>Chapelle Notre Dame du Grozeau \u2013 Malauc\u00e8ne<\/p>\n<p>2013<\/p>\n<p>Galerie Florian Arar \u2013 Bordeaux<br \/>Passage \u00e0 l\u2019art \u2013 Cherbourg<br \/>Grenier \u00e0 Sel \u2013 Avignon<br \/>Galerie Florian Arar \u2013 Bordeaux<br \/>Ch\u00e2teau de Val de Seille, H\u00f4tel de Ville \u2013 Courth\u00e9son<br \/><em>Hors-les-murs<\/em> \u2013 Vaison-la-Romaine<\/p>\n<p>2012<\/p>\n<p>Abbyac \u2013 Villeneuve les Avignon<br \/>Galerie Gaston de Lupp\u00e9 \u2013 Arles<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013 Galerie Gaston de Lupp\u00e9 \u2013 Arles<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 Galerie l\u2019Art et la Mani\u00e8re \u2013 Saint-Etienne<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 SATURART \u2013 GENOVA Prix \u2013 Prix Contemporary Art (Italie)<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 Prix Contemporary Art \u2013 Novara (Italie)<\/p>\n<p>2007 \u2013 Prix Mondadori Art, Palais de la Permanent \u2013 Milan (Italie)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; 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Princess Gallery \u2013 Paris<br \/>Kellie Miller Art Gallery \u2013 Brighton (UK)<\/p>\n<p>2014<br \/>&#8220;Traces de Lumi\u00e8re&#8221; \u2013 Cath\u00e9drale Ste M. d\u2019Assomption, Vaison-la-Romaine<br \/>&#8220;Puissance et Fragilit\u00e9&#8221; &#8211; Parvis d\u2019Avignon \u2013 Chapelle des Italiens \u2013 Avignon<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>Galerie Gaston De Lupp\u00e9 \u2013 Arles<br \/>Ferme des Arts \u2013 Vaison-la-Romaine<br \/>Chapelle des P\u00e9nitents Blancs \u2013 Gordes<br \/>Galerie des Origines- Vaison-la-Romaine<\/p>\n<p>2011<br \/>&#8221; The roots of soul &#8221; \u2013 Cairanne<\/p>\n<p>2010<br \/>&#8220;Scolpire l\u2019anima&#8221; &#8211; Salle Angelo Lodi, Buscate \u2013 Milan (IT)<\/p>\n<p>2008<br \/>L\u2019Eco del Sacro, Castellazzo dei Barzi \u2013 Milan (IT)<\/p>\n<p>2007<br \/>&#8221; L\u2019anima del Legno &#8221; Mus\u00e9e Luigi Magugliani, Corbetta \u2013 Milan (IT)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; 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He searches its form for the figures that inhabit it: the column, the capital, the standing man. With his scissors, Galbiati confronts its round, vertical form. He sculpts the fragrance of the squared-off tree, still alive. He feeds on the memory of its roots, branches and fruits. (&#8230;)     <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But sculpting a man with his soul is not just a matter of skill. The path that leads beyond the great craft is singular; no master can cross this threshold with his pupil. Galbiati, like all those who choose this path, searches alone for the forms that make &#8220;presence&#8221; visible.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is warned: form is born of contrary tensions that are not forced, but harmonized. 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His faces are conceived as capitals, keystones where the weight of the world and the weight of heaven are negotiated. A weight so heavy that the eyes close and the faces concentrate.    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here we see the inner life: prayer, fear, attention, contemplation, thought, abandonment, imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sculptor&#8217;s science and gift is that everything rises and nothing falls. Davide Galbiati, however, goes beyond cold calculations on a scale where the energies at play are equivalent. 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He loves sculpting irreducible sanctuaries: pillars with bare feet, serene faces, hands making the liturgical gesture of offering. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both large and small works are highly structured: tensions and lines of force build up and find a resolution to their contradictions, their balance in the face. The face then seems to invade the whole space, overflowing its limits, spreading out like a radiance of thought, like the foliage of a tree. In the past, painters used to put a halo on saints to signify their glory and aura; Galbiati has integrated this into the very body of his sculpture.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central theme ofGalbiati&#8217;s sculptural work is undoubtedly to bring out the invisible in man. 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Sometimes you have to wait&#8230;the work of form is mysterious: willpower and skill are not the whole story; grace has its unpredictable part to play.    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davide Galbiati is committed to his privilege as an artist, which is to bring the resonance of the soul in form to the visible world. A master woodcarver, he naturally found his inspiration in the strong analogy between tree and man. He has expressed this in many ways in his work. But the day comes when, to go further, you have to leave behind worlds you&#8217;ve mastered too well&#8230; You have to face up to the unknown and take on a few challenges. His curiosity led him to explore the most unfamiliar materials. Little by little, the paradoxical desire arose to bring together the most opposing of things: the most subtle forms that the soul gives to the body that shelters it &#8211; with the most inert, artificial and despised of materials.     <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just as the alchemist seeks to transform lead into gold, he is thinking of metamorphosing grey concrete into noble stone. It&#8217;s a learned chemistry too! It&#8217;s all about mixing materials, proportions, regulating temperature, hydration and setting time. The aim is to create a new material that is more docile to the will of the hand, and ultimately harder and more resistant to time.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Achieving this a little better every day is a symbolic victory. Isn&#8217;t it civilizing, this material erected as towers that has replaced trees and forests? Rather than despair, why not ennoble it? Why not give it the form of a soul? 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Davide Galbiati&#8217;s immobile figures transport us into spaces where silent gravity reigns. Davide&#8217;s surgical hands patiently dissect concrete, stone and wood, uncovering trapped souls.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henri Focillon speaks of hands as follows: &#8220;They are almost animate beings. Servants? Perhaps. But endowed with an energetic and free genius, with a physiognomy &#8211; faces without eyes or voice, but which see and speak. In time, some blind people acquire such a finesse of tact that they are able to discern, by touching them, the figures on a deck of cards, in the infinitesimal thickness of the image&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davide is a direct descendant of the Egyptian sculptors of Osiris, and his quest is identical. Carve into the fruit of the flesh to reach the pure core of the unspeakable. This ascetic outlook calls for the recollected action of the meditative gesture. 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