David Dalla Venezia

Since it is I who paints these pictures it is true that they are portraits of myself. However - as they are portraits of a man - they are also portraits of every man: what I depict of myself is common to all men; what I omit is that which differentiates me from them.

The world and popular culture of the 20th century (illustrated stories, comic books, animated cartoons and movies), classical mythology and its psychoanalytical elaborations (Freud and Jung), Greek and modern philosophy (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche above all) and contemporary philosophy (Severino) have further informed my world view and pictorial imagination.