Emanuela Galli Ligal

Emanuela Galli Ligal was born in Padua the 17/05/1958.

She draws and paints from 1977.

From 1978 she spent a year in London at Kensington Garden Square.

Between 1982 and 1983 she lived an experience, lasted one year, in the buddhist
monastery, named Tosho-ji, in Tokyo (Shinagawa-ku) where she was driven by
the Zen master Ban-Roshi and by the well-known Irish nun Maura Soshin OHalloran.

From 1989 she spent a year in Tuscany, during which she exhibited her works in
Chianciano Terme City.

In March 2000 she showed part of her canvases in the gallery The Emergent Collector
at the East-village in New York City.

She has attended, in November 2002, the International Review of Contemporary Art
- Magica - the magic in art to the Estense Castle of Ferrara.

From the 2002 permanent exposure near
- "La Mostra Gallery" of exclusive Cardiff for United Kingdom


Today she lives and works in Padua.

Her creativity is the result of her experiences, all, always lived in a very intense manner.
In the apparent banality of the existence, she sees the mask that she or others
personages wear in daily ambits. Irony, originality, are
revealed by the b...

Emanuela Galli Ligal known as "Ligal" in the artwork lives in Padova, the city where she was born in 1958, but in the past she has lived in Tuscany, London and, extremely important for her artistic and personal development, in the Tosho-ji in Kyoto, a Japanese Buddhist temple, where she discovered and embraced the Zen philosophy.

She started drawing at the age of seventeen. In 1984, the entry in the Dance Room of Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum marked another fundamental moment in her artistic life, a "huge revelation", as she reports. She then decided to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1996 she finally started to paint on canvass and from that day she has never stopped. She has exhibited around Italy, and in 2000 she held an important personal exhibition in New York City.

The intensity in which she has always lived her life is deeply reflected in her artworks, where the creative surge born from the nucleus of all her past experiences. Ligal, with her work, explores the eternal and human dualism between mask and face, truth and pretence, topicality and virtuality, dream and reality that result in a mystery and alchemic world, an attractive universe of feelings
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