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Federica Galli
Contemporary Venice landscape - Black White etching by Federica Galli

1989

About the Item

Venice Rio San Barnaba, rif. 535 Platemark inches 27.24 x 11.42 - mm 692 x 289 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical retrospective that the city of Milan promoted and set up to mark the tenth anniversary of her death. Milan's municipality has named a new street to her for the occasion. The many international and accredited critics who have lingered to appreciate Galli's etchings remark on her ability to combine poetry, architectural precision and interpretative originality. Federica Galli has always been able to take a fresh look at all the landscapes and architecture on which she has cast her gaze. Gianni Testori (art critic) and Renzo Zorzi (leading cultural dept in Olivetti at the time) convinced Federica Galli to etch a portfolio on Venice's views between 1984 and 1986. In four years (two years of visits plus two years of work en plein air) she carved 39 plates introducing a new eye to Venezia. In 1986, at the conclusion of the portfolio, the entire cycle was exhibited at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, which changed its statute for the occasion and opened its doors to contemporary art. The exhibition was sponsored and strongly desired by Olivetti. NMWA (National Museum of Women in Arts) in Washington conserved the complete Venezia portfolio. Also, her oeuvres are in significant Italian museum collections such as the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, (the same museum where Leonardo's Codex is conserved) and Museo of Castello Sforzesco, both in Milan; di Milano, Ala Ponzone in Cremona. A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was born in 1932 in Soresina – a village just outside Cremona. Straight after the war, in 1946, she convinced her parents to enrol her at the Artistic Lyce-um in Milan and in 1950 she went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, from where she graduated four years later with a diploma in painting. She began engraving in 1954 - “Il paese dell’Alberta”- experimenting with etching, a tech-nique she never abandoned for the rest of her life. In 1966 she married the journalist, Giovanni Raimondi – editor-in-chief of the Corriere della Sera – and began to embark on a densely packed programme of cultural trips that took her to the most important European capitals, and to coun-tries where the art of engraving is less deeply rooted. This was also the year in which she matured the conviction that engraving was the technique in which she expressed herself most effectively and started to apply herself exclusively to this art form, producing over eight hundred different subjects. Starting from her early personal exhibitions – the first one took place in 1960 in Milan – she met with the favour of public and critics alike. In the space of a few years, she could count on the support of some of the most authoritative critics of her time: Franco Russoli, Mario de Micheli, Giovanni Testori – who was to follow her closely until he died - Mina Gregori, Gian Al-berto dell’Acqua, Roberto Tassi, Renzo Zorzi, Carlo Bo, Daniel Berger (Metropolitan Museum of New York), Gina Lagorio, Giuseppe and Francesco Frangi, Marco Fragonara, Giorgio Soavi and David Landau (Oxford University).
  • Creator:
    Federica Galli (1932 - 2009, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1989
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27.24 in (69.19 cm)Width: 11.42 in (29.01 cm)
  • Medium:
    Etching
  • Movement & Style:
    Realist
  • Period:
    2010-
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU431310182232
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