Artist Daniele Franzella

Daniele Franzella

Palermo, 1978. Based in Palermo

Daniele Franzella, artist engaged in a refined theoretical research mainly conveyed through the language of sculpture and installation, investigates the evocative power of images and their nature as a manipulable language, in a recurring exercise of semantic reworking of symbols and codes. Through a wise use of techniques and materials, Franzella enacts a game of paradoxes and reversals, digging into the value of the material, making the material itself a language, cooperating and co-originating with the idea and concept of each work.
His vocation as an archivist, as a historian, as a scholar of images and encyclopedic collector, combines with that of a conceptual artist, in search of forms that tend to embody the idea. Symbols of nature, myth and power populate his artistic production. But nothing is as it appears, everything transmutes, renames itself, changes skin and bones, in a non-univocal relationship between reality and its representations.
His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
Since 2017 he has been among the artists represented by RizzutoGallery. Since 2021 he has held the position of Vice Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, where he teaches Sculpture.