Daniela Dente

My children were the best stimulant for my creativity, my best partners, they were, and still are, my first interlocutors. As a mother I ask myself what do I trasmit them, which cultural baggage, what do I leave them in eredity. Here is why my research varies, and in the last ten years is more oriented towards social satire.
- In the series where I use “Cages, Mousetraps and metal grids” I express through this materials all those social, cultural, religious and mental cages which are imposed to us, or which we impose to ourselves. Through this form of expression, I want the observer to interrogate himself and make questions. I do not point the finger, I only provide a point of view from which the observer can analyse and know the message that the artwork transmits. This because artworks are a “mean of communication”. My social commitment, as a volunteer in the Pediatrics sector of a Hospital, and before working at the European School of Oncology, have approached me to sufferings and discomforts of humans, to social and economic differences, to physical and mental pain. This route led me to engage myself, as a Woman in Black, for the defence of Human Rights, and Women Rights in particular.
- This series of paintings is a distillat...

Daniela Dente aka DADE - short biography
Painter, Restorer (canvas, frescos, boards, stone), Engraver, Cultural operator - DADE had a traditional artistic education followed by years of apprenticeship in restoration workshops. She works as a restorer for ‘Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali’ and for private collections. As an artist she takes part in collective and personal exhibitions, international contemporary art fairs in Italy and abroad. Portraitist and landscape painter, she enjoys painting animals and nature, practising with new materials and pioneering new techniques. Social activist as a Women In Black, she is involved in political discourse, inspiring her satirical artworks that touch on highly sensitive topics. As a martial arts practitioner she draws from here values of the extended culture, iconographically expressed in the coexistence of western and eastern influences. She identifies herself with the concept of Ecosophy, where nature and ecological harmony become central. In 2015 she founded ‘Movimento Arte Inessente’.

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2014 - Italia, Milano, DepurArt Lab Gallery Nosedo
2014 - Italia, Roccamonfina, Museo del Magma, Flogisto
2014 - Russia, Mosca, Biennale del libro d’Artista
2014 - Ungheria, Budapest, Art Market Budapest, Fiera Internazionale d’Arte
2014 - Italia, Roccamonfina, Museo del Magma, “Exclusive “
2014 - Italia, Milano, “Vite in Transito”, Circuiti Dinamici
2014 - Italia, Milano, Toyssimi : 100 artisti - Design + 100 bambini 100 giocattoli e più straordinari
2014 - Italia, Bergamo, Urban Center, “Verso la Luce “ - Mostra in occasione della Giornata Internazionale contro la violenza sulle Donne. Promotore: Associazione Donna Uscire dalla Violenza onlus
2015 - Finlandia, Varioppa, Libro d’Artista “Teoria del colore”. Serie di mostre Mainlibrary in Janakkala; Mainlibrary in Palkane; Mainlibrary in Kangasala; Mainlibrary in Valkeakoski; Mainlibrary in Hämeenkyrö; Mainlibrary in Hauho ; Mainlibrary in Nokia
2015 - Italia, Opera cardinal Ferrari Onlus a cura dell’Associazione; Circuiti Dinamici, “Arte per L’Opera”
2015 - Italia, Milano, Circuiti Dinamici, Mostra del Progetto Gestalt: Cibarsi CreativaMente ( Ideatrice e direttore Artistico)
2015 - Russia, Mosca, Book Fire, esposizione libri d’Artista.

2015 - Italia...