ZALIANI // ITALY
This collection of engravings and etchings are designed and created by hand by Italian contemporary master, Agostino Zaliani, born in Pavia, Italy. These unusual compositions are executed in the traditional manner and are the product of a master's unfailing eye for composition, artistic integrity and craft. Rarely exhibited in the United States, Zaliani's etchings and engravings are released in extremely low editions and are pencil signed and numbered by the artist, accompanied by Certificates guaranteeing authenticity. Considered one of the most important of Italian engravers, Agostino Zaliani is present in very important private collections in Italy and abroad and has exhibited in major museums and European Biennales.
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“Zaliani's hand that collects this sonic herbarium is skillful and discreet; he stops to write every leaf, every stem, the reflection of a light on the edges of the tufts of grasses, and he continues to give presence to the dry twigs and the curtain walls of the rustic cottages animated only by mold, by water veins. It could be objected that this type of designs had justification until a century ago; yet it is precisely in today's context that these moderate figurative meditations make sense, moral and mental dimension, establish landings of necessity, confirming human content…
The myth of the modern, of the hurried, of the nod and away, ignored for a battle lost on the truth, on that real that is so close to the author's heart as to feel its upset because he knows it, feels it, condemned to neglect and disappearance. Zaliani confessor of old deserted threshing floors, of ditches, of green pastures threatened by cement and asphalt, attentive to the identity of the individual trees as to the trimmings of a precarious beauty, once traditional and now almost archaic, if not exhausted as foreign to the tragic technological presences. Zaliani, touches the figurative and luminous vertebrae of the landscapes, but also the sound ones, for a formal chorus that can continue in the memory, in what we already knew about the places and as we will remember those places once observed in the translation of the engraver.” - Luigi Cavallo
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2008 Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan; Schreiber Gallery, Brescia
2007 Schreiber Gallery, Brescia; Antica Hosteria Italy, Cocquio Trevisago; Tirage Gallery, Pasadena, California
2006 Schreiber Gallery, Brescia; 2006 Lynn Perry Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 “30 Masterpieces on display” InClub Art Studio, Milan; “30 Masterpieces on display” InClub Art Studio, Florence; “30 Masterpieces on display” Chalcos InClub Art Studio, Naples; 2005 Galleria La Bottega of etching., Laguna Beach, California
2004 Center of the Engraving, Alzaia Naviglio Grande., Milan; Art Gallery., Los Angeles, California; Municipal Library Ca 'Tognola., Cocquio Trevisago
2003 Bolzani Stampe Gallery. , Milan; L'Incisione Art Gallery., Corbetta
2002 At-Arte Gemonio Gallery. , Gemonius; Lynn Perry Gallery., Laguna Niguel, California
2001 Valentinarte Gallery., Bellagio; FAES Argonne School Center. , Milan; New Art Gallery, S.Benedetto del Tronto (Giancarlo Vitali and Agostino Zaliani)
2000 Municipal Library., Besana Brianza; InArte Gallery. , Milan; Schreiber Gallery. , Brescia; Center of the Engraving, Alzaia Naviglio Grande., Milan
1999 Galleria Ada., Bergamo; Department of Culture, Medieval Castle., Vignola; Palazzo Feltrinelli. , Gargnano sul Garda; Uffizi Palace, Accademia dei Georgofili., Florence; Bolzani Stampe Gallery. , Milan; La Nassa Gallery. , Lecco; Art Workshop, Acqui Terme.
1998 Municipal Library., Caldana-Cocquio Trevisago; Center of the Engraving, Alzaia Naviglio Grande., Milan; Schreiber Gallery., Brescia
1997 Minerva Art Gallery, Pavia; Milanese Artistic Family., Milan; Salvini Museum., Cocquio Trevisago-Gemonio; "Arte in Corsia" S.Raffaele Hospital., Milan; Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan
1996 Galleria Il Torchio in Porta Romana, Milan; Municipal Library, Lurate Caccivio
1995 Valentinarte Gallery, Bellagio
1994 "The landscape, the light" Galleria S.Fedele, Milan; New Art Gallery, S.Benedetto del Tronto; Spazio Linati, Milan
1993 Spazio Ergy, Milan
1992 "A Milanese European: Stendhal" Central Municipal Library, Milan; Valentinarte Gallery, Bellagio
1991 Main Hall of the Baths, Chianciano; Il Sipario Art Gallery, Fidenza
1990 Bottigella Gallery, Pavia; Valentinarte Gallery, Bellagio
1990 Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan
1989 "Signs, Spaces, Reflections" Municipal Museum, Milan; Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan
1988 Il Vicolo Art Gallery, Voghera; Palaces Art Studies, Milan; Galleria Ponte Rosso, Milan
1987 Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan; Galleria La Soffitta, Salsomaggiore Terme; Piantoni Antichità Gallery, Milan
1986 S.Carlo Gallery, Porto Cervo; Galleria La Soffitta, Salsomaggiore Terme
1985 S. Carlo Gallery, Rome; Il Torrazzo Gallery, Cremona; Museum of via S.Andrea - Municipality of Milan, Milan
1984 Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo; Bolzani Stampe Gallery, Milan; Magenta Gallery. , Magenta; Galleria La Soffitta., Salsomaggiore Terme
1983 S. Carlo Gallery, Rome; La Nuova Scaletta Gallery, Genoa; Central Municipal Library, Milan; Il Torrazzo Gallery, Cremona
1982 Galleria La Tavolozza, Trento
1981 S. Carlo Gallery, Milan; Galleria Il Torrazzo, Cremona; Municipal Museum, Milan
1980 Paviarte Gallery, Pavia; S. Carlo Gallery, Porto Cervo; Il Sipario Art Gallery, Fidenza; Paullo Municipal Library, Paullo
1978 Sormani Municipal Library, Milan; Galleria Il Torrazzo, Cremona; Bottega d'Arte Sant'Ambroeus, Milan
1977 Eustachi Art Gallery, Milan
MUSEUMS
2008 “Carte d'Arte” at the Angelo, Lodi; "Triptychs" Center of the Engraving, Alzaia Naviglio Grande, Milan
2007 Center of the Engraving, Alzaia Naviglio Grande, Milan; "An Exhibition, a Restoration", Norcia
2006 "An Exhibition, a Restoration", Norcia; Circolo Artistico, Bressanone
2005 "An Exhibition, a Restoration", Norcia; ProLoco - Vitali and Zaliani, Casalmaggiore
2004 "An Exhibition, a Restoration", Norcia; VII International Biennial of Engraving, Acqui Terme; New Art Gallery, S.Benedetto del Tronto, etc…
Engravings grouped in folders or contained in significant volumes…
2009 "Societa Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso della Caldana" with an etching and speech by Alberto Ciglia and text by Alberto Palazzi, Edizioni Aricocchi
2008 Folder with an etching published by AEM Pensioners Group; "Valcuvia" Folder with an etching and texts by Piero Chiara, poems by Romano Oldrini and speeches by Riccardo Jelmini, Alberto Palazzi and Angela Viola, Edizioni Aricocchi; “La Nostra Terra” Folder with an etching and text by Alberto Palazzi and poems by Romano Oldrini, Edizioni Aricocchi
2007 "L'Incisore" Folder with an etching and a poem by Umberto Saba, edited by Marco Moncalvi, Milan; Folder with an etching for Wacovia Bank, edited by Grafica Varese; Folder with an etching for FLOW ENGINEERING edited by Grafica Varese Edizioni; Monograph "Agostino Zaliani - Acqueforti" with presentation by Luigi Cavallo, editions of the Study Center for Graphics, Mantua
2006 "Il Ribollire del Canneto" Folder with three etchings with presentation by Alberto Palazzi, poems by Romano Oldrini and text by Dino Azzolin, Graphics Varese Edizioni; "Via Rovello" Folder with an etching, NGO Agency, edited by Grafica Varese Edizioni;
There are also reproductions of etchings in:
Mondadori Graphics Catalogs No. 10, 11 and 18;
Precious Catalogs Art
Catalog of the Italian Engraving, Kleinos Art Gallery engraved
Basic Catalog of the Italian Contemporary Engraving 2005, InClub, Florence
White Gallery Catalog "Collection of ancient Prints in the Cistercian Abbey of Valvisciolo" 2003
“Invenit” Catalog raisonné of contemporary engraving, Ed.
InClub It is constantly present in the prestigious art catalogs of the Prandi Antiquarian Library in Reggio Emilia (N.ri 220, 224, 225, 226, 228, 230, 232, 234, 236, 238). Some reproductions of etchings have been used to illustrate several books published by the Pauline Editions.
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