Davide Mattera. (b.1984) is a contemporary artist who has developed a distinctive visual language focused on the exploration of human emotions and the search for a refined aesthetic balance.
Born and raised in Milan, he undertook an education that included studies at the Academy of Visual Arts, an experience that enriched his technical and conceptual understanding of art.
His artistic vision is rooted in the Milanese underground scene, where he began to express himself through graffiti. This context transmitted to him the importance of immediacy of gesture and visual strength, elements that remain central to his work. In parallel, Mattera explored other creative disciplines, dedicating himself to music production for several years and building a solid career in tattooing, a practice he has been practising for over two decades.
Painting is at the heart of his stylistic research, a medium through which Mattera combines complex textures, instinctive gestures and evocative tones. His works investigate themes such as the relationship between chaos and harmony, memory and transformation, creating a visual dialogue that stimulates the viewer's imagination.
Through tattooing and art, he has travelled throughout Europe, Asia and America, coming into contact with different cultures, aesthetics and artistic languages. These experiences have refined his stylistic sensitivity, pushing him towards a continuous redefinition of his pictorial approach. His research is based on a balance between matter and abstraction, where every sign, every chromatic overlay and every worked surface contribute to building images suspended between presence and fading. Painting for Mattera is never static, but the result of an evolving process, where each work becomes a fragment of a broader investigation into perception, time and transformation.
Currently, Davide Mattera has been living and working in Barcelona for several years, where he continues his artistic research by exploring new expressive directions. His work is characterised by a continuous stylistic evolution, in which authenticity and aesthetic refinement merge into a visual language in constant transformation.
