Branded-documentary realized for Linea D’Acqua Gallery in Venice. The pandemic has turned the city of Venice into a metaphorical set: magnificent and unsettling at the same time, it makes us wonder about crucial questions. These questions are the same raised by Battistin’s painting, with its oneiric and archetypal vision of Venice.
Davide is the painter of Venice’s light. His pictorial research is a painstaking journey towards perfection in capturing those magical moments when the sunlight fills the lagoon, the canals and the facades of the Venetian palazzi at different times of the day. Davide’s paintings convey the shiver of an icy winter’s morning with the lights in the distance behind the fog, the heat of the torrid sun that goes down behind the palazzi of the Grand Canal, flooding its waters with a dense, melancholy pink. His horizons are lost in an infinite distance that sinks into the motionless mystery of the lagoon fogs. A painting by Davide Battistin is a dream made of colours spread on canva.