Daniele Formica
1996, Italy
Daniele Formica practices art in response to the modern existential anguish he fights internally against himself. He attempts to transcend the here and now through moral and culture, cultivating his feelings, emotions, thoughts and ideas by feeding them with new experiences and encounters he looks for in the world to the ones the world brings to him.
How we find our similar and the other, how we form groups, distribute power, exclude the different… at the centre of all these concerns lies language. Language, for Formica, is a means to understand and position oneself in the world, about wondering where to find the other and where to draw a line, throwing messages across. Language is the research topic of Formica’s work. He uses it to converse with the other, to recognize what is similar and distinguish what is different; to understand and express what is human, expanding it through association and interpretation. For Formica, words are social sculptures in process, open and participatory forms of meaning. The story of words speaks of our relations, internal and external, relations with our similar and the other, revealing the many ways we have been understanding the world from the beginning of speech until now.
Daniele Formica’s practice encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and performance.
Daniele Formica (Perugia, 1996) lives and works in The Hague. He received the Fine Arts Bachelor Award at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), was recently nominated for the Piket Kunstprijzen 2022, and has recently finished a residency as CASTRO, Contemporary Art Studios Rome, Italy. In 2024, he will present a solo exhibition at the Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany