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.
