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by Francesco Adorno
I had the opportunity to introduce the catalogue of sculptor Luigi Galligani, now performing in our "Exhibition Hall", without using those metaphors and that strange rethorical way to talk typical of certain kind of critics about certain kind of self-indulging artists presuming to be up to date. That's not the same for the Luigi Galligani's sculptures: he is a pure tuscan, coming from Pistoia (where he was born in 1957) and from Chianti (where he lives in Castellina in Chianti) and appreciated everywhere for his classical and pure figures. In my quality of scholar and historician of the thought, starting from the greek one to the present, including the complex and various languages of the latter, beyond every stereotype, I am happy to understand and being interpreter of the classical (not "neo-classic") language coming from the Luigi Galligani's sculptures. And I say "classic" not in the more used and abused meaning (i.e. "ancient") but "classic" according the interpretation from Aulo Gellio: a matter of things who have avalue and where every single aspect does exacltly what's necessary, as is for a "navy" ("classis"). That's why it keeps a special meaning itself. As for the Galligani's sculptures: real "classic".
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