Davide Ricchetti was born on 15/12/1979 in Modena. Since he was a child he has shown a natural propensity for drawing; every surface, be it a sheet of paper or a wall in the house, are the basis for releasing a strong inner need to express himself and communicate with signs, figures and colours.

From 2000 to 2004 he studied set design at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2004, Ricchetti was invited to exhibit in the United Arab Emirates and at the prestigious Sale del Bramante in Rome. During this period, he also designed and created theatre sets collaborating with important Italian directors.  In parallel with his work as an artist, Davide Ricchetti is also a secondary school art teacher. In the course of his career he has created important works for authoritative private collections in Italy and abroad, set designs, murals and commissions for public institutions and cinema; he has participated in numerous collective and personal exhibitions, receiving important artistic awards. Some of his works have been published in books, Italian and foreign magazines and especially in the latest edition (2021) of the Mondadori's prestigious Catalogue of Modern and Contemporary Art (CAM), which includes the most important Italian artists of the 20th century.

"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 hyperrealist painting dictated by a push towards technical refinement, the 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 however love to blend and confuse with the abstract, using color as the main medium of expression of my emotions, ranging in a range of bright and bright colors. 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".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Davide Ricchetti