On Siamese drawing boards Galliani sets up a parade of zoomorphic
horror characters. Mystery, more than harmony, introduces us to a heraldry of tormented characters, self-generated through cloning.
The expressive strength that emanates from the biological captivity of the
characters represented is achieved through the physical doubling of a
contemporarily pre-human and post-human condition and, through the body, reopens the discourse on the relationship between the natural and the artificial, between technology and Man, between art and itself.
Omar Galliani shows, in his recent works, that art through beauty can transfigure itself not only as nature but also as something against the natural laws of things.
— Italo Tommasoni


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Hilger, Vienna; 2002: Cersarie 2002, Bologna; Cardelli & Fontana, Pietrasantala, Italy; Archeological Museum, Aosta, Italy; Binz & Kramer, Cologne; Marella, Milan; 2001: Archeological Museum, Villa Giulia/ Archeological Museum, Tarquinia, Italy.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Mito Contemporaneo, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy; 2002: Sconfinamenti, Castello Spezza, Fiorano Modenese, Italy; 2001: Figure del ‘900, Pinacoteca, Bologna; Insorgenza del Classico, villa Campo Lieto, Ercolano, Italy; Sui Generi’s, PAC, Milan; Anni ‘80, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo.