Davide Rivalta
Leone, 2018
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Davide Rivalta
Leone, 2018
Cast bronze
165 x 108 x 360 cm
65 x 42 1/2 x 141 3/4 in
Edition of 7
DAVIDE RIVALTA
Born in 1974 in Bologna, Italy
Lives and works Bologna, Italy
Davide Rivalta was born in Bologna in 1974, where he lives and works. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, graduating in 1996, before furthering his studies under the guidance of Cristina Iglesias at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since 2004, he has been a tenured professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. His career had its first significant turning point in 1998 when he won the competition for the inclusion of a permanent artwork in the courtyard of the Courthouse in Ravenna, where he installed a series of imposing bronze gorillas.
I do not seek to mimic the subject, nor do I attempt to recreate its physical presence; rather, by placing these sculptures within a landscape – often in relation to built structures – I evoke its essence through a kind of apparition, typically transient in nature. Thus, mimetic fidelity is neither the starting point nor the end goal.
Davide Rivalta
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