...What’s more, being a person who is fully aware of having reached his goal, Galli provides us with absolutely magnificent paintings, loaded with a resonance of colour and light, which can serve as a sort of inspiring suggestion, originating from an extreme undressing of a language which can be likened to spiritual distance. He gauges himself as the highest point of an absoluteness which is focused on defining an evocative colour, a crescendo of symbols and script, an appearance or a new composition of figures which by now are far from what is imaginable, his very own code which is poised between pure abstraction and the permanence of traces which, if they are not figurative, they without doubt appear to be emotive. His paintings are teeming with turmoil and lacking in grace, a quasi-state of eternity, the opportunity to create time and space which seize an internal rhythm of sweet natural echoes, although they may be addicted to meditating over the poetics of his gestures. A new landscape slowly takes shape, a new panorama composed of molecular charm, substance, dust and ash, as if it were an integral recovery of what we have experienced. However his painting undoubtedly remains the main attraction, motivated by a pursuit which, having started with a subjectiveness in crisis, then goes on to conquer a linguistic and morphological objectiveness, the heritage and characteristics of a truly Lombard tradition.

Carlo Franza

With his paintings, Eugenio Galli brings out the colour white against bursts of colour created with impromptu chromatic lacerations which splinter his canvas, almost cutting right through the middle of it, as if this flickering of colour were devouring the light which spreads knowledge throughout the world. …Galli’s work is a passionate pursuit to capture this worldly knowledge – knowledge of an incommensurable world where the ego navigates by sight and searches for a leading thread, something to hold onto “so as not to fall into the sky” as poet Giovanni Pascoli once wrote. Galli has also come back to the extremely diverse, complex and ideological accumulation of this past century, to study for himself the small constitution of the universe: The constitution of light.

Vittorio Sutto

Galli is a sophisticated lover of beauty who communicates with his own spirit (and with our soul) in search of new expressive forms. In his pieces which are composed of delicately soft tones, light plays a primary role; it is an existential light which is able to pierce the canvas (like the ‘slashes’ of artist Lucio Fontana), going beyond the image to capture the spirit of its observer.

Chiara Cinelli

His use of the colour white is where we begin our journey. It is in fact here where the Artist discovers the freedom to authentically experience anticipation, like the soul’s state of protension towards the Absolute. Tension is “released” in an ultimate piercing gesture which, ripping through the white canvas with colour, opens a door to other possible worlds, worlds of imagination and dreams. The complete and material whiteness of Galli’s Steles take us even further. It is here, at the peak of our anticipation, where these possible make-believe worlds layer upon each other and blend together, finding a sublime sense of peace.

Francesca Bianucci

Amidst the whiteness
you reached the traces of a thread:
a mirage
a story which illustrates history.
You pursue it
And you discover the height of your splendour,
colour colours your hands
it refreshes your mind
and the fever which resembles love
builds itself a nest of stubborn sweat.
A light glistens
and pushing its way through,
it reopens an old page,
a myth
fleetingly emerges
and transforms into a glowing light…

Myrna Bongini

...images which, if they were inspired by a particular impression, are nothing but the perception of a more general reality, therefore if his work portrays atmosphere, it is done so without conveying space or time. His latest work could be entitled “Freedom to be”, considering it consists of everything which is potential and indefinite, as well as undisputable and questionable; this prospective is a characteristic which runs through the paintings of Galli. Because here we are too close to the original, to the way in which reality reveals itself to our eyes, without even having engaged in its development, or rather, the things which will take hold of us. But for an instant, these images can tell us everything (this “everything” doesn’t correspond to quantity, but to substance)...

Camillo Ravasi

...another of his personal exhibitions in Seregno is the finishing line to a goal which the artist set himself during these last few decades of consistent work, persevering with a giddy development of creative uses of colour. In the eighties he began to be inspired by matrixes and patterns, and with an invigorating impulse – as any good native of Brianza would – he translated a script of rainbow colours into a subservient form onto backgrounds which seemed to asymptotically go on forever...

Franco Cajani

...it seems to us that Galli, to his surprise, in actual fact found himself completing this work as a kind of recording, setting up a period of anticipation in his creative space as if it were, at least in psychological terms, a renovated interpretation of “Desert of the Tartars”, a Buzzati revival...

Camillo Ravasi

...a dynamic vision, tireless and unstoppable, which transforms into a stubbornly beautiful dream. If beauty can be stubborn. But maybe it is. This artist has an anguished willingness to listen to the soul of the universe and to then compare it with the signs of his own: a difficult and even arduous job. He doesn’t want to provide his audience with unsuitable, aphasic language. No. The audience has to discover, responsibly, its own internal, syntactic path. Semantics for understanding the characteristics of this sincerely genuine artist...

Carlo Mola

...his use of colour, bright patches within mellow backgrounds of colour, modifies and folds the space within his canvas creating images and visions of an internal language...

Felice Bonalumi

...nowadays, this artist from Seregno conveys a soft and delicate use of colour, where we see moveable volumes, precious shades and harmonies, and glimmers of meaning and beauty emerging, in a painting which is like a glowing furnace of a newly formed world, the script of a cosmic language, the eyes’ window to the dominion of the soul...

Domenico Montalto

...the eagerness to discover the ultimate end of human behaviour, the need to delve in deep, and the essence of existence are reflected in his pictorial gestures...

Patrizia Ardemagni

...Eugenio Galli remains in very delicate contact with reality. But he takes a different path: to express himself he creates his own sovereign vocabulary. We can therefore find here abstract “invented” paintings, which while playing with form and colour, are used to evoke a thrill of beauty in anyone who attentively observes his work...

György Szabó