Davide Bramante was born in Syracuse in 1970. A photographer, he creates multiple exposures dedicated to the big metropolises such as New York, Paris, Madrid, Havana, Dublin, Zurich and Peking, cities where Bramante has lived for brief periods of his life, along with other series devoted to the cinema, with sequences related to films such as The Shining or Eyes Wide Shut. The images, frequently of large dimensions, are made using shots overlaid on the film without any digital assistance, which are then mounted on plexiglas supports with neutral-ph silicone. Already with eight works in the Unicredit collection, winner of the European prize of the same name, after having won two scholarships he is still, to date, the only Italian at the prestigious Franklin Fournace Foundation of New York.
Read MoreHe has displayed: in 1998 at the Galleria d’arte Moderna of Bologna; in 2000 at the MOMA of New York in the collective show “The Present of Future”; at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2001; at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena at the show “Melting Pop” curated by Gianluca Marziani in 2003, as well as taking part in the Premio Cairo in Milan in November 2006. He has also displayed at various collective and one man shows in Europe and in the United States, and at the major international art fairs, such as Art Basel, ARCO (Madrid), FIAC in Paris, Art Chicago and Sh Contemporary in Shanghai. Having qualified in Scenic Design first at the “Albertina” Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin and later at the “Fidia” Accademia di Belle Arti in Cosenza, he currently teaches Photography and Mass Media at the “Michelangelo Castello” Accademia di Belle Arti in Syracuse, where he returned to live in 1999 after thirteen years spent between Turin, Rome, Milan and New York. The extensive volume that accompanies his last show at the Poggiali e Forconi gallery in Florence is curated by Lóránd Heghy, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Saint-Etienne in France. Stiff, padded cover. Approximately 80 colour illustrations, 5 in black and white, 132 pages, Italian/English. The Museum of Isernia, the MACI, devoted an extensive one man show and complete volume to him in November 2007.
