Davide Ricchetti was born on 12/15/1979 in Modena. Since he was a child he has shown a natural propensity for drawing; every surface, whether a sheet of paper or a wall at home, is the basis for releasing a strong inner need to express oneself and communicate through signs, figures and colours. In 1997 he won his first important prize at the “Reale Creativo” competition, an artistic event that called thousands of Modena citizens to vote. Since 2006 Ricchetti has started to airbrush musical instruments and the appreciation he has received is remarkable, especially abroad, particularly in the United States. In parallel with his activity as an artist, Davide Ricchetti is also a teacher in secondary school. During his career he has created numerous artistic commissions for private individuals, for public institutions, theatre sets and murals; has participated in numerous exhibitions, including those in the Sale del Bramante in Rome (2008), in the Oratorio della Passione of the Church of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan (2021), in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (2021), in the Museo Maritim in Barcelona (Barcelona International Art Fair 2022), and in the latest edition of (UN)Fair Milano (2024). His works have been published in Italian and foreign books, magazines and journals, and above all in two editions of the prestigious Mondadori Catalog of Modern and Contemporary Art (CAM) in 2021 and 2023, which includes the most important Italian artists of the twentieth century. His scholastic and formative path has always been focused on art, first attending the Art Institute with a focus on architecture and continuing his academic studies with a focus on Scenography; during this last period he designs and creates theatrical sets, collaborating with important directors on the Italian scene. “My painting has gone through many changes in style, always in search of a language that could fully express my inner feelings. In recent years, after a long period of purely realist and hyper-realist painting dictated by a push towards technical refinement, my art has undergone a real “metanoia” clearly changing direction; my favorite subjects are human figures and Greek and Roman antiquities, painted in a realism that I love to merge and confuse with the abstract, using color as the main means of expressing my emotions, ranging in a range of colors that are always bright and brilliant. I don't know how long I will continue to express myself like this, in fact I believe that experimentation and artistic research are essential moments for me to avoid falling into an empty immobility and I think that transformation is a lifeblood that brings stimuli and new ideas”.