Biography
Daniele Vezzani was born in Novellara, Emilia-Romagna, in 1955, where he lives and works.
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and has exhibited in Milan, Turin, Rome, with major anthological exhibitions in Reggio Emilia (Civic Museums, 2008) and Novellara (Gonzaga Museum, 2014). Daniele Vezzani's painting is enclosed in the private colors of the soul; he chooses subdued but never dull tones, adopting the universal essentialism of the domestic circle. A small and infinite world, referable and abstract, private and shareable. The pictorial confirmation that from the face originates a vertical radiography of being. The openings of beauty, so vast and elusive, arrange themselves into a shared Esperanto of emotional gaze. We are in a communicative painting that descends into the tunnels beneath the epidermis. Upwards, ever higher: because under the skin, one can ascend without descending. The complex physiognomy of the world starts from the gesture of femininity that opens its sinuous wings.
Body, gaze, repetitive development, obsession, indirect theatricality: Daniele Vezzani uses the minimum of scenic elements within a sensitive desire for knowledge. The concentration on physicality is strong, the vision courageous, the overall path coherent. The parental relationship filters feelings towards something delicate and truly profound. A piece of oneself thus transforms into a magnificent obsession: absolute and free, clear and natural. The best way to make oneself (and therefore every appropriate viewer) a privileged observer of inner knots. Everything, yesterday as every tomorrow, starts from the body and corporeality.
BODY: feminine, young, honest. True in posture, deep in disposition, sensual in surrendering to the perimeter of the gaze. Vezzani portrays his two daughters through photography. He captures the energy in their eyes, seizes the brief disagreements of a gesture, the quick shynesses, the soft abandonments, the instinctive ecstasies, every normal fear. The pictorial operation, for morality to be in form and content, requires acts of surgical sensitivity. In an instant, the portrait's honesty could be broken. Vezzani emphasizes a status of solitude and beauty, eroticism and obstinacy, love and instinct, fear and admirable courage. A force and a turmoil not easy to narrate: and we see this as much today as in the sublime eroticisms of Raphael or Titian. The ability to speak universally depends on the disposition of looking. The eye advances ahead with an already rich memory.
GAZE: of the artist in pictorial direction, on one side; of the protagonists who act out their freedom, on the other. A sublime intersection of silent dialogues vibrating in the pearly grays of the background. On that sea of emotional depths, there is a figurative eye that captures the sinuous movement, the idealized pose, the attitude of thought with which to reformulate one's own landscape. It's an eye that decides to change domestic normality into an aquarium of very strong emotions.
