David Manetti

David Manetti was born in Lucca on 02/16/1968. He graduated from the artistic high school of Lucca and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1990. He has participated in numerous personal and collective exhibitions from 1987 to today. “For me, painting means translating an emotion through the pictorial technique which must be sober and the color uniform, so as not to fall into the banality of landscape painting which prevents instinct from being represented. Capturing the sea or the land and sky is not easy, but intriguing, exploring the crack of the horizon, the infinity that transcends our understanding. Painting the flow of time, questioning existence, representing what cannot be seen, starting with form, ending with the unconscious. My painting expresses itself through dispossession, the skeleton of form, the substance of things, the nothingness stripped away by the human presence which is only witness to the greatness of nature". Some works are on permanent display at the Hotel “San Luca Palace” in Lucca, others are part of private collections in Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Canada and the United States of America. A permanent exhibition can be visited at the “L'arte” Gallery - Lucca. Professor Sandra Lucarelli, pr...

Lucca art high school and Florence fine arts academy

From the most recent exhibitions we remind you: 2013 Second edition of the art competition “La Sorgente” Guamo (Lu) third place - 2013 Tigullio exhibition prize - Chiavari (Genoa) highlighted work - 2014 “In Contemporanea” Fondazione Lazzareschi - Porcari (Lu ) - 2015 Fourth edition of the “La Sorgente” art competition Guamo (LU) second place - 2015 Personal exhibition at “la Rocca” – Talamone (GR) - 2015 Collective exhibition at the “In villa” art gallery – Rosignano Solvay (LI) - 2016 Collective exhibition at the “Chiellini” gallery - Livorno ” - 2016 Personal exhibition “Beyond the appearance of the landscape” S. Elisabetta Conservatory - Barga - 2018 “Ars ventis” - San Vittore del Lazio (FR) - 2018 Personal exhibition at “Chalet Salvini” - Pisa - 2018 Collective exhibition at “ICLAB” – Florence - 2018 Artists on display for the “AISM” calendar Cittadella del Carnivale – Viareggio - 2019 Personal exhibition at “Antiche camellias della lucchesia - 2019 Personal c/o “Associazione 213” - Capezzano P.- Lucca - 2019 Competition “Sunsets on the Pisan coast XII ed.” Marina di Pisa – 2nd prize winner - 2019 Bipersonal exhibition “Dissolvenze” Castello Porta S. Pietro - 2019 Collective exhibition “Art for women” Factory291 gallery – Viar...