The light of Venice
Born in Venice in 1970, Davide Battistin graduated in 1998 from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
In the same year he won a scholarship to the School of Fine Art in Athens. In the following years he collected an impressive series of prizes and took part in important solo and collective exhibitions in Italy, the US and the UK.
He works in a romantic studio in the Cannaregio district, in the mansard of an ancient Venetian palazzo with big windows overlooking the roof of the splendid church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli.
Davide is the painter of Venice’s light. His pictorial research is a painstaking journey towards perfection in capturing those magical moments when the sunlight fills the lagoon, the canals and the facades of the Venetian palazzi at different times of the day. There is no other city in which the light reflects in so many different ways, arousing such a wide range of emotions as in Venice.
Davide’s paintings convey the shiver of an icy winter’s morning with the lights in the distance behind the fog, the heat of the torrid sun that goes down behind the palazzi of the Grand Canal, flooding its waters with a dense, melancholy pink. His horizons are lost in an infinite distance that sinks into the motionless mystery of the lagoon fogs.
A painting by Davide Battistin is a dream made of colours spread on canvas.
1998 VIII Biennale of Sacred Art. Cloister of St. Apollonia, Venice
1999 IV International Workshop and Seminar - European Contemporary Art. In the point of intersection between cultures and nations. Ryn, Poland
2000 IX Biennale of Sacred Art. Cloister of St. Apollonia, Venice
2000 Invito al colore. Sala Centro Civico, Burano (Venice)
2000 Davide Battistin, Nora Ferruzzi, Roger de Montebello, Paolo Smali. Ca’ del Duca, Venice
2001 Recent Works. Galerie Pelar, Greenport Long Island, New York
2001 Davide Battistin: Recent works. Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice
2001 Davide Battistin, Galleria Holly Snapp, Venice (introduction by J. Berendt)
2002 Biennale of Sacred Art. Winner of the 2nd Prize. Cloister of St. Apollonia, Venice
2002 Pictures of Venice, Galerie Pelar, Greenport Long Island, New York
2003 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2004 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2004 Selected Six Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2004 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice
2005 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2005 Davide Battistin and Antony Morris, Oakham Gallery, London
2005 Venice Exhibition, Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York
2006 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2006 Davide Battistin, Derek Daniell, Michelle Bennett Oates, Bob Richardson, Richard Robjent, Oakham Galleries, London
2007 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2008 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2009 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2010 Venice in Peril Exhibition, W.H. Patterson, London
2010 Davide Battistin, Sala metallica, Municipality of San Donà di Piave (Venice)
2013 Solo Exhibition, Novecento Boutique Hotel, Venice, curated by Daniella Bacigalupo
2015 Venice in Peril Exhibition, Osborne Studio Gallery, London
2017 Solo Exhibition, Lineadacqua Gallery, Venice
2018 Beyond the Horizon, Solo Exhibition, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Contacts
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