In his work
Rivalta directly turns to nature, above all to animals, to create an epiphany of images that shows them in a docile attitude that at times is in contrast to their majesty and the violence of our dealings with them.
Large-scale sculptures in bronze or resin: lions that roll about on the ground, rhinoceroses, wolves, buffaloes, horses. Rivalta photographs them in zoos and enclosures and then reproduces them without any further interpretative interventions, leaving the shot to reveal its representational force.
Ghepardo (2015) by Davide RivaltaTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
Davide Rivalta (Bologna 1974; he lives and works in Bologna) graduated from the fine arts academy in Bologna, and then studied with Cristina Iglesias at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich
In recent years his work has been included in numerous group shows, including Modus, curated by Martina Cavallarin and Eleonora Frattarolo, a collateral event of the 57thVenice Biennale; Time is Out of Joint, curated by Cristiana Collu and Saretto Cincinelli, at the Galleria Nazionale, Rome; Un sogno fatto a Mantova, curated by Cristiana Collu and Saretto Cincinelli, Palazzo Te, Mantua.
Leoni by Davide RivaltaTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
This virtual exhibition was brought together with Otto Zoo Gallery on the occasion of the Exhibition “Passaggi” visitable from the 27 October to the 15 December 2018.
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