Artists / Daniele Cestari

Daniele Cestari was born in 1983.

Following his studies at the liceo scientifico in his hometown, he completed a degree in Architecture and Urban Environment Planning. He lives and works in Ferrara.

Cestari insists that one must understand his work, first and foremost, as that of ‘an architect who paints’.

Having never undertaken any formal art training, Cestari renders onto the canvas his architectural passions – his fascination with the energy of the urban environment. His carefully crafted perspectives invite the viewer into the all- consuming momentum of the cityscape, alive with texture.

The dynamism of Cestari’s loose brushstrokes and blurred canvases evoke the city as a living entity, constantly in flux. Yet they also lend his scenes a wonderful sense of opacity; keeping the observer at arm’s length, they are the perfect acknowledgment of the impersonal nature of the metropolis, with its hidden away existences and shuttered private lives.

Cestari uses various mediums together - oils, pencils, acrylic and varnishes – to create a work as varied as the city itself. Often he begins his work with less than pristine canvases – old, degraded, stitched and imbued with their own history – and he works to unite these pre-existing traces into his work.

For Cestari, we are the paintbrushes and pencils within our own cities, each footstep down a Attraverso, Barcellona Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2012 street adding to the history of traces left before. 

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