Biography
Angelo Davoli was born in Reggio Emilia on September 7, 1960.
Angelo graduated from the technical industrial institute in his hometown and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, completing his education through interaction with artists and intellectuals.
Davoli's paintings capture the breath of nature and that of man, eternally coexisting and clashing. There is man's attempt to seek an interlocutor in the sky, reminiscent of the times of the great Gothic cathedrals. There is a desire, a necessity, to embody a clash of wills and emotions present at the heart of contemporary life, in today's domesticated nature, where the profile of church steeples has been replaced by that of silos and chimneys. Davoli's work strikes at the stomach and heart of those who live in this time with the uncertainty of doubt and the fascination of being deeply immersed in it. Silos and warehouses are an integral part of our inner landscape and simultaneously relics, an irreparable wound in the beauty of the natural landscape and an icon of the present and recent past, filled with poignant and distressing melancholy. Their uniquely elongated lines, their mystically skyward-pointing peaks, their rough, industrial character, contrast with the beauty and free strength of nature. They symbolize an era where there are no more cathedrals to build because there are no more gods to believe in, and where the ruins of old factories have subtly become valuable material for the archaeologists of tomorrow.
He passed away in 2014, after a long illness, the day before his 54th birthday.
In the spring of 2015, the Angelo Davoli Archive was established, a cultural space dedicated to the preservation, management, and promotion of his artistic work. In the fall of 2015, a retrospective exhibition of Davoli's works was held at Palazzo da Mosto in Reggio Emilia.
