Oriano Galloni

Oriano Galloni’s current work fuses the classical with the ordinary and merges painting and sculpture into a new unified form he calls DiPura. Galloni coined the term "DiPura" by combining the Italian word for painting, "dipinto," and the Italian word "scultura" for sculpture. The resulting word, "DiPura"—“say pure" in Italian—resonates powerfully with the artist as purity has been a central concept in his work for decades.

DiPura is the interplay of physical dimension and existential paradox. The artist’s process of dismantling aesthetic distinctions and his discovery of silence in noise, joy in banality, rebirth in refuse, beauty in commerce and humor in mass marketing reveals the unexpected play of life.

Among Galloni’s first "DiPura" works is "Renascita I"—part of a series of the same name—which gives new life to found objects, in this case an Arizona Tea can, iPhone chips and stereo speakers.