Biography
 

Germano Ovani creates, with the oil painting technique, portraits characterized by a strong nostalgic component inspired by a passion for ancient black and white photos, generally from the first half of the 20th century, used to investigate the clues of a past in which individual and collective memory overlap and sometimes coincide.

His artistic training began at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and continued in Great Britain, at the University of Aberystwyth, in Wales. After living in Edinburgh for about fifteen years Germano recently returned to his hometown, Pesaro, where he currently lives and works.

He has exhibited his works both in Italy and Great Britain, most recently at the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, while one of his works was selected for the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Moving from one culture to another led him to investigate concepts such as individual, society, culture and power, with a particular interest in the mechanisms, conscious and unconscious, that determine and define the single individual within a society and a historical and cultural context.