Davide Prete

Artist Statement

As an artist, I work with forms and materials.
I have chosen to work with three dimensional objects and with metals in part because of my family's tradition in metalsmithing and because of my own feelings.
Sometimes the material chooses the idea and a shape discovers a concept.
I start from rigid, rigorous, geometric compositions because they give me rule and structures that I have to follow. I work with these geometric impositions until the geometry disappears and a soft form appears.
I like to think of materials having a dialogue or a confrontation; the dark forged iron with the shining brushed stainless steel; a rectangular section with/against a circular section; soft shapes and angular figures.
Recently, my work is focusing in new technologies such as 3D printing and laser scanning applied to the traditional metalsmithing techniques. In my last projects, mathematical equations provided me with a pretext for discovering a new formal language. Using toroidal warping shapes and other mathematical forms I connect figurative images with the mathematical language.