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Daniele Cestari Tessuto Urbano
(cover)Red LightsOil on canvas, 30 x 120 cm, 2012
Daniele Cestari | Tessuto Urbano
Daniele Cestari was born in 1983. Following his studies at the liceo
scientifico in his hometown, he completed a degree in Architecture
and Urban Environment Planning. He lives and works in Ferrara.
Cestari insists that one must understand his work, first and foremost,
as that of ‘an architect who paints’. Having never undertaken any
formal art training, Cestari renders onto the canvas his architectural
passions – his fascination with the energy of the urban environment.
His carefully crafted perspectives invite the viewer into the all-
consuming momentum of the cityscape, alive with texture. The
dynamism of Cestari’s loose brushstrokes and blurred canvases evoke
the city as a living entity, constantly in flux. Yet they also lend his
scenes a wonderful sense of opacity; keeping the observer at arm’s
length, they are the perfect acknowledgment of the impersonal nature
of the metropolis, with its hidden away existences and shuttered
private lives. Cestari uses various mediums together - oils, pencils,
acrylic and varnishes – to create a work as varied as the city itself.
Often he begins his work with less than pristine canvases – old,
degraded, stitched and imbued with their own history – and he works
to unite these pre-existing traces into his work. For Cestari, we are the
paintbrushes and pencils within our own cities, each footstep down a
street adding to the history of traces left before.Attraverso, Barcellona Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2012
It is early morning!Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2012
Berlin 2Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2012
Berlin 1Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2012
Dorme LeiOil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2012
Red In CamdenOil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2012
CrossroadsOil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2010
White LineOil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm, 2012
Milan EveningOil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2010
Milan Morning 2Oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm, 2010
Linea di Pentagramma Senza NoteOil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, 2012
Luce 2Oil on canvas, 115 x 130 cm, 2012
Lampione AccesoOil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, 2012
Luce 2Oil on canvas, 115 x 130 cm, 2012
BluOil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2011
White City Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 cm, 2011
Il Lampione Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 cm, 2012
