Bio

Danilo Quintarelli was born in Avellino in 1989. His first encounter with art occurred during his school years through writing; simultaneously, he developed a passion for photography. This interest led him to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he graduated in 2015. During his years of study, he delved into themes and artists that would influence his work: the surrealists' relationship with the irrational, David Lynch's "instinctual" cinema, the "night" of Antoine D'Agata and Francis Bacon, and the religious abstraction of Mark Rothko.

He exhibited his photos for the first time in 2014 at the International Festival of Digital Arts "Flussi Media" in Avellino. In 2017, also in Avellino, he participated in the group exhibition "Dialoghi" at the cultural center "L'Approdo." In 2019, his first solo exhibition, "Dietro lo Specchio," took place at the space "Naima, La libreria di Ludovico" in Montemiletto (AV). Gradually shifting away from photography, he focused on painting as a means of conveying unconscious communications.

In 2021, he moved to Rome, where his painting exploration continued. In 2022, he participated in the group exhibition "Ex Voto – artisti per Santa Rosalia" in Palermo, curated by Andrea Guastella. In 2023, he exhibited in Rome at the gallery-laboratory "ArtSharing" with the show "Morfogenesi," curated by Penelope Filacchione.

"The gesture made in the impossibility of predicting what it will produce creates irrational meaning. An example are the old abandoned houses of my land, where entire villages were forced to flee.
What man has built and repeatedly modified is now handed over to time.
The plasters, windows, railings and floors are manipulated by nature: the stratifications of material interact by modifying each other, each layer is the product of the interaction with the other layers.
Il risultato è un'opera automatica, ben lontana dall'atto razionale da cui tutto ha avuto inizio.
The result is an automatic work, far from the rational act from which it all began.
That meaning is art.
This is what I expect from those who make art, a superhuman effort to move away from the language we are used to, the rational one, and become the means through which the phenomenon of art occurs: The work is a threshold where the journey of artist somehow unites with that of the user, the bowels of one meet with those of the other to dialogue.
Sincerely.
In a safe place."
(Danilo Q.)