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Alberto Gallingani was born in Florence in 1938, where he still lives and works today. After a first formative phase of realistic pictorial experience, in 1961 he came into contact with artists of the abstract Florentine movement and developed his experience in the field of Pittura di Nuova Realtà. During the same period he visited the "Galleria Numero" of Fiamma Vigo, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1964. In 1965 he received a scholarship for young artists awarded by the city of Florence. In 1969 he drafted the Primo Manifesto della Pittura di Nuova Realtà and in 1971 he founded the art studio "il Moro" together with others. In the meantime his artistic experience developed. The concepts of Nuova Realtà became clearer.

In 1973 he created the series Geometria utopica, which highlights the importance of ideological values ​​in human relationships. His field of interest broadens: he begins to take up photography. The installation "I drew a 50 cm square on the floor" dates from 1976 and in 1977 he had his first performance "I painted with white".

This is the beginning of a period of intense experimentation that will take him to the edge of mail art. To get to know Alberto Gallingani better, he himself writes:
1972... I have a mental and physical aversion to repeating themes that have already been covered. How can one repeat one and the same theme, one and the same painting, dozens, hundreds of times... I have a deep-seated aversion against which I have no weapons. Then a political/existential problem stood in my way: when the ideological enthusiasm was over, I wondered how to continue my research without making concessions. Once again, I joined the group of those who wanted to understand without blinkers... two sides of the same problem, and the conviction grew within me that I had to investigate elsewhere. In search of the implications of history, I realized that the new man for whom my work was intended had never been born. The vision was incomplete. The environment was there, but not the inhabitant. I decided to look for him, and the cycle of Utopian Geometries was born... that was in 1973.