Daniele Nannini

I was born in Turin, earned my degree in humanities in Pisa, and live in Florence.
Today, I devote most of my energies to making art, maintaining, however, continuity with my work in publishing, which I have been doing for a long time
for publishing houses in Italy and abroad (France, Japan, Greece, Spain and Switzerland).
In recent years – with a growing interest, on one hand, in what for me were new techniques of expression and, on the other, in a more adult usership of my work – I began to devote myself to painting and sculpture.

In this new activity, I chose an eclectic approach that, moreover, corresponds to my character: a few works are allusive, while others place the viewer before facts in their naked truth, while others are strong and dramatic, and others still, light and ironic.
They are held together – at least, so I hope – by a shared attitude. Without contradicting my once prevalent activity as an illustrator and children’s author, I pressed forward, from another perspective, to examine what has always been central to my work and that can be summed up in the analysis of the relationship between man and nature of which he is a part. An attempt to visualise human beings in a place that is no longer one of absolute privilege, of domination. A place where man no longer feels himself the god of the world.

Personal Shows:
1988 “Animali Compassati” By the province of Pavia.
2003 “Piccolo trattato di zoologia immaginaria” Meyer Children’s Hospital Firenze.
2005 A work of mine “Vitellina di Bue Mischiato” after participation in the Cow Parade becomes part of the permanent collection of Meyer.
2011 “Scimmie, umani e altri animali” By the province of Imola.
2011 “Compasses Zoo” At the Staedtler company headquarters, Nurnberg.
2013 “Il libro disegnato” By the municipality of Empoli .
2013 “Hamlet in the jungle” Sitespecific installation, Sensus Foundation showcase, Fiesole, Claudio Cosma curator.
2014 “Installazioni Animalesche” Former SanT’Orsola convent, Firenze, Goffredo Serrini curator.
2015 “Ritratti Animali” Maidoff Gallery, Firenze, Naomi Muirhead curator.
2019 “Animali con Passato” Fiesole, Piero Forosetti curator.
2022 "Giardino Zoo-Logico" Firenze, Sergio Tossi curator.