Daniele Guerrieri was born in Castelli (TE) on 27 April 1944, where he graduated from the State Art Institute. After high school he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome where he graduated in sculpture with top marks.
Trained under the guidance of Monteleone and Fazzini, the sculptor has always flanked his teaching activities at art high schools in Rome and Teramo with intense and highly personal research. Tending to the elaboration of his own language, he made sculpture a means of investigating reality, a tool through which to discover the mysterious and perfect laws of things.
It is their hidden life that is revealed in the expressive intensity of the monumental works, in the fantastic yet rigorous richness of the ‘constructions’ of the 1970s, in the fascination of the latest creations, in which the material is revealed in its most intimate and disturbing rhythms.
His works can be found in the most famous Italian and international (USA, France, Germany) private collections and in the most important European and American museums.
In Guerrieri’s artistic production there is a dominant theme, which recurs and becomes a point of reference in all his works: the religious theme. A number of fundamental aspects can be identified in his production: monumentalism (to which belong works for villas, small squares and the ‘monument to the fallen of the sea’ at Roseto degli Abruzzi) and portraiture, which stand out for their expressive power (it is the ‘epic and celebratory discourse’ of which some critics have spoken); the ‘fantastic’ constructions in which geometric rigour is combined with an extraordinary constructive richness, ‘fantastic’, precisely; the latest research, which represents a return to his first vocations, those of his youth. In them are the intimate forces of things that he seeks to imprison and reproduce.
The form in these ‘fragments’ is combined with a new, though ever-present component in his research. Memory is at one with the pictorial component, which does not enrich it, but marks and punctuates it, bringing out its strengths, even its most intimate and disturbing ones…
The sculptor lives and works in Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo) at Via Senarica 11.
