Titled: Torpore
Artist: DAVIDE FONTANA
Size: 160cm x 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Plaster, fabric, wood and iron
About Artist
Davide Fontana (b. 1995, Palermo, Italy) is a sculptor based between Bagheria and Grammichele, Sicily. He graduated with a Master's Diploma in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo.
Working primarily in sculpture and drawing, Fontana explores the relationship between material, memory and human experience. His practice is rooted in an interest in the traces people leave behind—through gestures, objects, sounds and silences—transforming intangible experiences into physical forms.
His work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions across Italy, including A29 Palermo Gibellina (2017), Polizzi Generosa Arte Contemporanea (2021), FACE (2025), MAI DIRE MAI (2025), and SUPERSACCA (2025–26). In 2021, he was selected for the XV Edition of the Premio Nazionale delle Arti.
Through a poetic and tactile approach to sculpture, Fontana investigates the intersection of body, space and memory, creating works that invite contemplation on the fragility and persistence of human presence.
Artist Statement
My artistic research stems from a desire to investigate the human condition through the traces we leave behind: gestures, sounds, silences and objects.At the centre of my practice is the concept of the “sonic act”—understood not merely as an acoustic phenomenon, but as a primal expression of human existence. It is a gesture that gives rhythm to time and shape to memory.Sound therefore becomes matter, while matter, in turn, preserves sound like an invisible yet tangible echo.
Through sculpture and drawing, I develop a visual language that translates vibration into volume and memory into physical presence. Musical instruments embedded within materials, elongated rhythmic forms, unstable structures and surfaces marked by the passage of time all evoke the fragility of existence, the weight of memory and the tension between the body and the forces that move through it. Within this dimension, the human figure is never directly represented; instead, it is suggested through its most essential gestures and deepest silences.
My works aspire to give form to a silent acoustics, where harmony becomes silence and sculpture transforms into an archive of a voiceless humanity, yet one charged with history.Matter becomes a witness, sound becomes a trace, and memory becomes form.
Each artwork is carefully packaged and shipped directly from the artist’s studio.
Tracking information will be provided once dispatched.
Delivery times may vary depending on destination and customs processing.
International orders may be subject to local import duties or taxes.
Titled: Torpore
Artist: DAVIDE FONTANA
Size: 160cm x 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Plaster, fabric, wood and iron
About Artist
Davide Fontana (b. 1995, Palermo, Italy) is a sculptor based between Bagheria and Grammichele, Sicily. He graduated with a Master's Diploma in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo.
Working primarily in sculpture and drawing, Fontana explores the relationship between material, memory and human experience. His practice is rooted in an interest in the traces people leave behind—through gestures, objects, sounds and silences—transforming intangible experiences into physical forms.
His work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions across Italy, including A29 Palermo Gibellina (2017), Polizzi Generosa Arte Contemporanea (2021), FACE (2025), MAI DIRE MAI (2025), and SUPERSACCA (2025–26). In 2021, he was selected for the XV Edition of the Premio Nazionale delle Arti.
Through a poetic and tactile approach to sculpture, Fontana investigates the intersection of body, space and memory, creating works that invite contemplation on the fragility and persistence of human presence.
Artist Statement
My artistic research stems from a desire to investigate the human condition through the traces we leave behind: gestures, sounds, silences and objects.At the centre of my practice is the concept of the “sonic act”—understood not merely as an acoustic phenomenon, but as a primal expression of human existence. It is a gesture that gives rhythm to time and shape to memory.Sound therefore becomes matter, while matter, in turn, preserves sound like an invisible yet tangible echo.
Through sculpture and drawing, I develop a visual language that translates vibration into volume and memory into physical presence. Musical instruments embedded within materials, elongated rhythmic forms, unstable structures and surfaces marked by the passage of time all evoke the fragility of existence, the weight of memory and the tension between the body and the forces that move through it. Within this dimension, the human figure is never directly represented; instead, it is suggested through its most essential gestures and deepest silences.
My works aspire to give form to a silent acoustics, where harmony becomes silence and sculpture transforms into an archive of a voiceless humanity, yet one charged with history.Matter becomes a witness, sound becomes a trace, and memory becomes form.
Each artwork is carefully packaged and shipped directly from the artist’s studio.
Tracking information will be provided once dispatched.
Delivery times may vary depending on destination and customs processing.
International orders may be subject to local import duties or taxes.
