From Sept. 12 to Nov. 30, 2025, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano is hosting Concordi lumine maior. In Poetry and Painting, a solo exhibition by Omar Galliani, curated by Carlo Bruscia, set up in the two venues of Palazzo Bracci Pagani and Pinacoteca San Domenico. The exhibition, conceived by Davide Rondoni and Omar Galliani, draws inspiration from theancient link between word and image, literature and figurative arts: the theme of “sister arts,” or ut pictura poësis, a perspective with which for centuries poets and painters have interpreted the relationship between disciplines.
The title of the exhibition project, Concordi lumine maior, echoes Francesco Furini’sAllegory of Painting and Poetry, preserved in the Pitti Palace. In the painting, the embrace between the personifications of Poetry and Painting visually represents their bond, sealed by the motto “Concordi Lumine Maior”: an expression that reminds us how both can elevate each other when illuminated by the same light in a dialogue of cross-references. Over time, numerous authors - including Davide Rondoni, Alda Merini, Giuseppe Conte, Seamus Heaney, Roberto Mussapi, Guido Oldani, Alban Nikolai Herbst, Zingonia Zingone, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Maurizio Cucchi and Italo Tomassoni - have dedicated texts to Galliani’s research. In the exhibition, this interweaving of verse and images takes shape through panels that accompany the works on display.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on Friday, September 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Pinacoteca San Domenico, where poet Davide Rondoni and artist Omar Galliani will converse “In the Sign of Art,” in front of an installation that runs the entire nave of the church. Afterwards, the itinerary will continue at Palazzo Bracci Pagani, which houses more than 30 works created by Galliani with pencil, charcoal and pastel on paper, board and parchment from 1977 to 2025. The exhibition documents over forty years of research, in which Galliani spread the great tradition of Italian drawing, transforming graphite into monumental matter and focusing on a “sign” capable of evoking the “dream.”
Inside Palazzo Bracci Pagani, the room that holds the works Mantra (2013) and Blu oltremare (2023) recalls, by assonance, the installation placed by Galliani in the church of San Domenico. Blue, a pivotal color in his creative journey and a recurring one in the Baroque tradition, becomes the thread of a confrontation between painting and poetry. The mantra, engraved in gold like a prayer from the Hindu tradition, underlines the tension toward the word as the origin and support of the image. Indeed, it is from the text, the writing and the poetic element that the work itself is born. The blue creations, never shown before, constitute an unprecedented and central core in his artistic research.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano with a preface by Giorgio Gragnola, president of Fondazione Carifano, texts by Davide Rondoni and Omar Galliani, poems by Davide Rondoni, Alda Merini, Giuseppe Conte, Seamus Heaney, Roberto Mussapi, Guido Oldani, Alban Nikolai Herbst, Zingonia Zingone, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Maurizio Cucchi, Italo Tomassoni and photographic documentation of the works on display.
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