Giuseppe Gallá - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

From an analysis of his works, we can understand Giuseppe Gallà's conception of landscape and nature painting. He maintains a connection with the description of sensory data, of what he sees and perceives through his senses, but everything is transfigured according to a rigorous compositional logic. Indeed, the artist reconstructs the sensory world not according to a naturalistic principle of imitation, but according to a hyperrealist spirit. Everything, therefore, appears static, in a sort of magical, metaphysical immobility. Consistently, even the representation of objects follows a generally hyperrealistic line that avoids any pictorial effect. Thanks to an excellent execution technique, the objects are depicted with a precise, photographic manner. The strong plasticity is in no way disrupted by the application of color, and the artist avoids any atmospheric effect, remaining consistent in his aesthetic choices.

Giuseppe Gallà was born on April 26, 1935, in Cefalù, in the province of Palermo. He attended the Art Institute of Palermo, where his true inspiration for art and painting took shape. Particularly passionate about the works of Van Gogh and Caravaggio, Giuseppe Gallà found his own expressive path between tradition and modernity, in which the depiction of everyday life is crystallized in a magical hyperrealism.

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