MILAN. Guido Daniele was born in 1950 in Soverato, in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria. Soverato, pearl of the Ionian Sea, boasts the most beautiful bay of the Gulf of Squillace, which has been selected Sea Park for the presence of colonies of Hippocampus, the incredible seahorses increasingly rare in the Mediterranean. The great photographer and artist of body painting now lives and works in Milan, yet his artistic mind is reminiscent of the fairy images heartening the heel of the geographical boot. Greeks, Arabs, Jews settled a peaceful coexistence in this part of the far south of Calabria, a history of over two thousand five hundred years that has left its mark in the rich local culture. Fine crafts and ancestral rituals seem therefore inspire much of Guido Daniele works. Since the 1990 covers in black and white, through the colourful calendar for Flou in 2001, the succession of sensational work and advertising for large and well-known companies is relentless. From Breil watches to Magnum ice creams, from Jaguar cars to AT&T Communications around the world, from Vogue Jewellery to Stada Russia, the series of painted faces and bodies is extraordinarily original, until the very last, delicate drawings on the models’ eyelids. Using every single technique, thanks to art studies in Brera in Milan and then at Tankas Tibetan schools and Dharamsala in India, in 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques. Since 1986, he has been working and improving his personal usage of airbrush: he paints back-stages in different sizes (the biggest ones can be 400 square metres) for artistic and advertising pictures, TV commercials and TV programmes. He also creates trompe l’oeil, both in private houses and public buildings. In the nineties, he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and personal and group art exhibitions, collecting unanimous success all over the world. From the rock paintings housed in the gallery of Luis Adelantado Valencia in 1986, to the Museum of Porta Romana in Milan in 1999, the Alps, Spaces and Memories at Giampiero Biasutti Gallery in Turin follow in 2002. At the end of 2005, he presents the first Nudipinti, the first painted beauties, at the Gallery Guayasamin in Havana, Cuba and the Ginepri of Montalbo in Posada, Nuoro in Sardinia. Since 2006, he experiences abroad, from San Salvador Bahia in Brazil, to Havana in 2007, presenting Handimals & Nudipinti also at the Alsterhaus in Hamburg, Germany in July 2007, and at the Galeria de Arte Nacional Caracas, Venezuela, in September 2007, and at the Casa de la Cultura in Pampatar, Isla de Margarita in the Estado of Nueva Esparta. Then, in spring 2008, Harrods’s of London hosts a memorable exhibition, followed by many others which provide the artist an international reputation: in June he is in Milan, in August in Hamburg, in the fall in Brazil, at the Museum Luciana Matalon Foundation in Salvador de Bahia and then in Orlando, Florida, USA; in 2009 and 2010 he gets great success in Germany, in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne, and in 2011 he performs in Italy, in Parma, in Zanzibar, in Tanzania and in Warsaw, Poland. In 2012, after a major exhibition in January in the Cloister of the Umanitaria in Milan, he flies to Cuba, to Havana, for the exhibition at the Palacio de Historiador; then, he attends the Artfair 2013 in the Expodome Liliane Fonds in Amsterdam. In 2014, he is at the Carré Doré Gallery and at the Jane Goodall 80th Birthday, ending traveling around the world, from Ibiza with Zoolandia to Futagotamagawa in Japan. In 2015, he is still in Ibiza in January and finally he presents his Handymals at the Top of the Rock at the 120 OI magazine
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