Davide Frisoni (Rimini 1965)
Even if very young, Frisoni pursues an original pictorical research into the contemporary artistic panorama of Italy. Illustrator and set designer, he makes his debut as a painter in 1996, after the attendance at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. His portraits, or rather his characters, show how he was strongly grounded to the tradition of the Gemito and Antonio Mancini’s crude grey Realism. The “Bullfighters”’s series undoubtedly refers to the best of painting (not only the Spanish one) over the centuries. But, his insight about light (dated 1999) is the real innovation he introduced to develop his own language, which attracts the critics’s attention. Concerning this, “Sunrise of a new day” and “Asphalt of light” describe times of real life, where the author can spread colours on the canvas masterly.
Frisoni’s interest in the meteorological effects produced by the rain, the light, the life onto the asphalt, makes innovations in this kind of Italian painting. (He’d better to blur cars rather than make them definite).
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