The young Italian painter Daniele Cestari (1983) is aware that his career as an artist is strongly linked to his academic education as an architect, which he completed with a thesis on urban planning. This is where he developed his love of the physical appearance of the city and the urban landscape. Cestari sees the city as the most complex machine that man has ever constructed. To him, the identity of the city lies in the apparent meaningless manifestation of its architectonic creations. It is the real character of the city which he tries to express in his paintings. The most anonymous, remote places where only the passing cars and the effect of light and shadow make for dynamics and energy are the key theme in his paintings. Cestari’s work method lies in the extension of this raw urban power; also the way in which he paints makes the gesture dominant. Fast brushstrokes and barely defined facsimiles of the buildings suggest the impression that an anonymous passer-by is observing the city from a taxi.
Education: autodidact
