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Davide Mancini Zanchi graduated in 2012 from the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts and since 2011 he began exhibiting in numerous private spaces and public museums for solo and group shows, including the exhibition “Mira il mare mà lë” at the Pescheria Centro Arti Visive Foundation in Pesaro and the solo show “Toys are us,” at the A+B Gallery in Brescia. He participated in the group show Art Drive In at Ag Generali in Brescia Castello and, after the 2018 group show, opened his first solo show at Otto Gallery in Bologna, entitled “da che mani vidi Zan Cin.” In 2017, the basement of Urbino’s Palazzo Ducale hosted his exhibition “The Conquest of Space.” He made a solo exhibition at Museo Fattori in Livorno, the group exhibition “Versus” at Galleria Civica in Modena and “Memories” at Villa Manin, both curated by Andrea Bruciati; the group exhibition “CIY” curated by Claudia Buizza and Pietro Della Giustina, at Ville Belville in Paris, the end-of-residency Dena Foundation exhibition titled “Primavera 3,” curated by Valentine Mayer and Jane Koh, Frederic Lacroix Gallery, Paris. He was among the winners of the Italian Council with a residency project in Motevideo, Uruguay, in 2021 as well as of the Sao Paulo Invest awards at Premio Treviglio 2016, the 2014 Mac di Lissone Prize, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, and in 2011 the Pescheria Prize. In 2021 the monographic catalog Monochrome, edited by Gabriele Tosi and published by CURA Books, was released.
A+B Solo show:
2022, Domenica
Group show:
2013, Oltre il pensiero. Quattordici ricerche attraverso la materia
His practice often takes shape in a polymorphic manner. David’s approach consists of repositioning and reinterpreting shape and items of the everyday life (apple,frame), consumer society (the tuning) or masterpieces of oeuvre Italian painting (Pala del Montefeltro and Polittico di Sant’Antonio by Piero della Francesca). His polymorphs often work against or are subjected to one another. In this sense, his works are permeable, connected and inclined towards an ideal, the vacuum of the original act that leads to reverse the meaning. Inspired by Jazz music which can be similar to a musical game, he emulates its flexibility and liquidity.
Davide Mancini Zanchi takes nothing seriously, taking everything seriously. Only people with a marked intelligence have this ability, which, moreover, cannot be considered innate, but rather the result of a long observation of reality, including the ugliest, lowest and subcultural aspects (which are not ugly, low and subcultural by the way) and the more glossy, uplifting and “intellectual” ones. It returns a seriously-ridiculous view of what is observed and for that reason necessarily inconsistent.
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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR DAVIDE MANCINI ZANCHI, Marco Roberto Marelli
VERSUS. IL DIBATTITO TRA BELLO E BRUTTO TRA DUE ARTISTI, Vincenzo Merola