Varese, Lombardia, Italy
Gianluigi Casiraghi was born in 1953 in Gallarate (Italy). He approached painting as self-taught at ...
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Joined In 2019
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About the artist
Joined In 2019
(367 Followers)
Gianluigi Casiraghi was born in 1953 in Gallarate (Italy). He approached painting as self-taught at the beginning of the 70s, studying the artists Carlo Carrà and Mario Sironi. The first works are executed in oil on canvas or with enamels on glass. The pictorial activity was interrupted during the university period and later with the work commitment in Milan. In the 2012/2013 period, he expressed interest in optical art and pop art, and later he started to make modern figurative works that were sometimes informal, with prevalent use of acrylic colors. His ongoing research concerns the language of color, light and dark, movement, depth and three-dimensionality.
He is a member of the 3° (Alfa Artist Association) of Gallarate with whom he participated in various initiatives including exhibitions at the municipality of Gallarate, at the historic San Pietro church in Gallarate. He participated in the reproduction of the painting "Justice" by Luigi Cavenago included in the renovation project of the Gallarate's church. To his credit numerous personal and collective exhibitions of which among the most recent in Arona (Italy) in July 2017 (inaugurated by the mayor Doct. Gusmeroli with the presence of teacher Sgarbi), and in October / Novem...
- Gallarate (Italy), October 2014 (Pro Loco)
- Gallarate (Italy), October 2014 to March 2015 (Bar 2 Galli)
- Gallarate (Italy), May 2015 (Pro Loco)
- Cassano Magnago (Italy), June 2015 (S. Giulio church)
- Gallarate (Italy), November 2015 to February 2016 (Crocetta Gallery)
- Gallarate (Italy), February 2016 to August 2016 (Bar 2 Galli)
- Gallarate (Italy), May 2016 to July 2016 (Crocetta gallery)
- Somma Lombardo (Italy), 16th to 25th April 2016 (Oriana Fallaci's gallery)
- Gallarate (Italy), January 2017 (Pro Loco)
- Gallarate (Italy), January to February 2017 (Crocetta gallery)
- Gallarate (Italy), June 2017 (Crocetta gallery)
- Legnano (Italy), 21st October to 5 November 2017 (Centro culturale San Magno)
- Sesto Calende (Italy), April 2018 (Pro Loco)
- Mercallo (Italy), June 2018 (Azzurrà Caffè)
- Gallarate (Italy), June to July 2018 (Crocetta gallery)
- Legnano (Italy), November 2018 (Centro culturale San Magno)
- Gallarate (Italy), November 2018 to March 2019 (Crocetta gallery)
- Mercallo (Italy), December 2018 to January 2019 (Azzurra Caffè)
- Sesto Calende (Italy), April 2019 (Pro Loco)
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