Biography Davide Battistin
Venetian Painter
Born in Venice in 1970, Davide Battistin graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis on Guglielmo Ciardi. In the same year, he won a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts in Athens, continuing his research in European contemporary art.
The fundamental restoration experiences of the 1990s, including those in the Great Council Hall of the Doge's Palace, led him to a direct reflection on pictorial matter and oil glazes, a technique he would later teach at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.
Defined by critics as a contemporary heir to the great Venetian vedutismo tradition, Davide Battistin is celebrated for his personal research on light and color. His work stands out for the technique of overlapping oil glazes, through which he decomposes and recomposes the atmospheres of the lagoon. In his works, the monumental architecture of Venice merges with the liquid and rarefied element, transforming the urban landscape into an almost abstract visual experience, suspended between memory, perception, and luminous refraction.
From his first solo exhibition in New York in 2001 to exhibitions at the Querini Stampalia and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, his paintings have reached as far as the stage sets for La Gioconda at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
