ARTISTS
David Piedmont
Artist's card
Born in Rimini in 1965, where he continues to live and work, he graduated from the Liceo Artistico in Rimini and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. His works are held in numerous museums, public and private collections in Italy and abroad (including: the Ducati Collection in Tokyo and the Sharon Gallery in San Diego, California, the Pinacoteca di Crotone and the CARIM Foundation). He twice won the international Rome 2000 competition, in the '98 and '99 editions, which led to his participation in a series of exhibitions in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Paris, organised by Galleria Il Collezionista in Rome.
Since the summer of 1999, the street has become the favoured setting for his research, with its cars, headlights, traffic lights, thunderstorms, streetlamps... These works were presented in 1999 in a solo exhibition at La Nave Và Gallery in Rimini, which led him to be a finalist in the Imbersago Morlotti Prize, in the group exhibition Promesse at the Forni Gallery in Bologna, in the Treccani Prize and again in the Imbersago Morlotti Prize in 2001.
From 2001 to 2006, he worked with Telemarket.
In 2003 he participated in the exhibition "Views" at Sharon Gallery in San Diego, California.
In 2004 he was invited to the "International ArtExpo'" in New York.
Since 2007, he has begun collaborations with six other galleries in Italy and abroad, fully establishing himself among the best-known artists of new Italian figuration, both nationally and internationally. In 2007, he was invited to the Lucca Biennale.
In 2009 he was chosen by critic Alberto Agazzani for the Sismondi Biennale in Rimini, as part of the exhibition "Contemplations. Beauty and Tradition of the New in Contemporary Painting." Alberto Agazzani wanted him for other events such as, "Altre contemplazioni" at LIBRA Gallery in Catania and "Confronto a Dieci" at Castel Sismondo in Rimini in 2010.
He exhibited at Art Basel Miami in December 2010. Also in December 2010, in Rimini's Sala dell'Arengo, he presented a series of 21 works including views and asphalts and a series of shocking new portraits of truck drivers (Truckers). In July 2011, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, he participated in "TRICOLORI. Three artists for three colours." At the invitation of Vittorio Sgarbi, he participated at the Venice Biennale in the Italian Pavilion in Parma at Palazzo Pigorini and at the Venice Biennale in the Italian Pavilion in Turin.
In 2012, he had a solo exhibition dedicated to the face, "The Human Face," at the Leonart Gallery in Conegliano (TV), with which he participated in the 2012 BERLINER LISTE fair.
2013 opens with the exhibition "The Human Face" featuring new works at the International Art Centre & Gallery in Bologna, curated by Bongiovanni Gallerie. He is a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize with the work "Thank you Anselm" and exhibits at the Arsenale in Venice. In July, a major solo exhibition at the Museo Antico Tesoro in Loreto presents a cycle of works dedicated to the Passion of Christ.
In 2014, he opened his most important solo exhibition at Restarte Galleria in Bologna with the cycle of works "Riflessioni" featuring a critical text by Gabriello Milantoni. It was so successful that it was included in Artefiera's official exhibitions. In April, for the Rimini Design Biennial, he opened a solo exhibition titled "Metropolitan Travel Notes." A new solo exhibition followed in May, titled "Metropolitan Visions," curated by Camilla Mineo at L'Art Gallery in Parma. He participated in the three-part group show "Encounters" with Leonardo Blanco and Luca Giovagnoli at the Merli Expo Clinic space in Rimini. He began a collaboration with ArtSeverina Gallery in Moscow, with whom he participated in the "Italomania" event at the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow. He was selected for the BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In May, he held his first International Painting Workshop in Istanbul. In November, he participated in the International ArtFair in Tuyap, Turkey.
2015 opens with the Bosphorus Art Newspaper Venice Biennale 2015 in Istanbul, Collettiva Quintessenze curated by Giorgio Bertozzi and Ferdan Yusufi in Rome. In March, the second International Painting Workshop was held at the Frisoni atelier in Rimini with Turkish artists. In May, the 2015 Collective Synthesis curated by Giorgio Bertozzi and Ferdan Yusufi took place in Bursa, Turkey. At the end of July, he opened his solo exhibition "Temporal Reflections" at the Museum of the City of Rimini. In direct relation to the path taken with the Reflections cycle, more than twenty works will be exhibited. Some of these will be set up within the museum's itinerary, alongside originals from the 1500s and 1600s from the museum's collection. An ambitious and important project for the artist and the city of Rimini, which has the full support and patronage of the City Council and the Museum of Rimini.
In 2016, the first solo show in Istanbul was held at Galeri Selvin with the exhibition "Light 2.0." Participated in the Biennale of Drawing with a solo exhibition entitled "Paper City - Digital Drawing."
New solo exhibition in October titled "Urban Landscape", curated by Roberta Tosi at Villa Mussolini in Riccione.
2017 opens with a solo exhibition in Verona entitled "Memory and Desire" - Casa Mazzanti Art Caffè - curated by Roberta Tosi. This is followed by a group exhibition in Istanbul at the Russo Gallery. He is represented at national and international fairs such as Cremona (Special Event at Cremona Arte Fiera with "On the Road" by My Art Galleria), Forli, Ankara and Parma. In September, a group exhibition entitled Cartel Rimini takes place at Augeo Art Space in Rimini, curated by Matteo Sormani and Gianluca Zamagni.
2018 opens with a major group exhibition within the Rimini Biennale of Drawing, entitled "Sironi and the Contemporary." Thirty works by Sironi will be displayed alongside those of fourteen contemporary artists, at Augeo Art Space. In Padua, he will exhibit in a double solo show with Luca Giovagnoli at Spazio Anna Breda.
In 2019 he is again in Istanbul (Tuyap) for the group show "Infinity Within" curated by G. Bertozzi and F. Yusufi. An original exhibition in Milan at the Volvo Studio for Arts, where the lines of the cars were incorporated into the urban visions of the works on display, with the title itself being a nod to urban vision, "Street View," conceived and curated by Chiara Angeli, director of the Volvo Milano concept space.
2020 was marked by Covid and months of lockdown that forced us indoors, but that is not why we stopped existing and living. It was an opportunity to rethink ourselves in relation to others, to re-evaluate and reconsider the fundamental aspects of our existence. Work that the artist, in fact, never stops doing. So it was a very fruitful period, pictorially and humanly speaking. From this period emerged the exhibition "The Colours of My Story" held at Augeo Art Space, curated by Matteo Sormani's Art Preview.
2021 Dante year. Accepting the challenge issued by critic Roberta Tosi, he created a cycle of works dedicated to the Divine Comedy, which were exhibited at the Ferrara Film Festival, the Circolo Letterario in Verona and the Bresciani Palace in Cerea for "Settembre Dantesco."

