DENIS RIVA | Avanzato stato di composizione

Denis Riva is a tireless player of words, so much so that his stage name, resulting from the melting of his name and surname, is "DeRiva" ( the Italian meaning of "deriva" is " drifting"). There, drifting , he very often sends his works, letting them swing in a fluid space on the border between being left and being gone.

In a delicate narrative balance, at the tip of rhetorical figures, Denis Riva's works are by their very nature "aquatic". The reference to rivers and (paper) lakes is constant, they are mental landscapes, places in which to stop and reflect, or to take a break from life.

It is in these places that the stimulus to create develops, to compose new scenarios in which the pictorial dimension leaves room for that of collage, and then returns to impose itself with lashes of pure color. Next to the man, there are his "friends". They are not other men, but symbolic animals, "protectors" of a dimension between the domestic and the wild, between obedience and freedom.

The "avanzato stato di composizione" in which Denis Riva finds himself is the translation of a research path in constant evolution, in a continuous accumulation of goals that are continuously exceeded, moving the goal further and further away, and secretly hoping never to reach it.

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