Filippo Galgani

Filippo Galgani was born in Siena in 1970. From an early age attracted by the Sienese handcrafted creations in gold and silver worked, he enrolled at the Duccio di Buoninsegna Art Institute in Siena and in 1989 graduated as a master of art. In these years he met the master Armando Basile and became a shop boy at his foundry. With bronze he begins his personal search for the “fragment” and its aesthetics while, thanks to repeated trips to India, he enriches his own artistic and spiritual experience. The meeting with his old friend the sculptor Piergiorgio Balocchi was decisive: Galgani enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and attended his courses, creating the first large marble sculptures. He graduated in 2003 and began exhibiting in Pietrasanta and Florence. In 2006 he exhibited in Switzerland at the Triennale BadRagaz and in 2011 the collaboration with the B.V. Art Gallery started. A multifaceted artist with remarkable skills, he works with different materials, from wood to white Carrara or yellow Siena marble, from copper to concrete, sculpting, shaping, melting, to the point of creating dialogues of extraordinary balance and achieving results of extreme purity and depth. Inextricably linked to his land, he manages to bring the Tuscan landscape into sculpture in an inimitable way. Its night vision cypresses, symbols of this wonderful land, are unique works, sculpted with finesse and sensitivity. The cottages with clean and pure cuts summarize the authenticity of the old farmhouses immersed in the Tuscan countryside. Artist of masterful qualities and techniques, with an ever fresh and current vision, he represents an excellence in the Sienese and Italian sculptural panorama.

Works

Featured works

Cipressaia a otto

oak wood cm 50x33x28 – code G1.2306

Paesaggio in scultura – Monastero

travertine and wood cm 45x40x23 – code G1.2304

Paesaggio in scultura

yellow Siena marble and machined silver leaf cm 25x17x25 – code G1.2303

Cipresso

oak wood cm 97x32x20 – code G1.2301

Paesaggio in scultura

yellow Siena marble and wood cm 40x21x24 – code G1.2204 

Cipresso

Sahara Noir marble cm 45x16x9 – code  G1.2201

Cipressaia a tre

oak wood H cm 59 – code G1.2202

Cipresso

oak wood H cm 49,5 – code G1.2105

Paesaggio in scultura – torre

marble and wood cm 28x22x22 – code G1.2111

Cipresso

oak wood H cm 53 – code G1.1906

Paesaggio in scultura

marble and wood cm 22x27x11 – code G1.1901

Cipressaia a tre

oak wood H cm 60 – code G1.1812

Cavallo di Ulisse 4

wood and copper cm 70x35x22 – code G1.2311

Cavallo di Ulisse – Gaston

wood, leather and copper cm 40x64x25 – code G1.2101

Cavallo di Ulisse 7

wood and copper cm 65x40x28 – code G1.2314