Cesare Catania. Established painter, sculptor and digital artist. Born in Milan on 1 February 1979.
In his works of art, painting, sculpture and digital art interact harmoniously, giving life to unique creations imbued with hyperrealism and geometric art at the same time. A continually evolving experimental artist, capable of being both traditional and innovative, Catania is fascinated not only by modern art, architecture, cubism and the great masters of classical painting, but also a profound admirer of that digital culture which led him towards an eclectic artistic production with wide acclaim from both Italian and foreign critics.
His creative abilities and aesthetic taste enthusiastically embrace technology and everything that looks to the future under the sign of innovation. The "Catania Technique" deserves particular attention, a mixed technique which involves the use of materials such as silicone, acrylic and mineral pigments, and which gives both the canvas and the sculptures a material effect of absolute visual impact.
Also involved in various philanthropic initiatives, Catania carries out, among others, the "Embrace Project", an itinerant and socio-cultural artistic project with a highly inclusive connotation, inspired by one of his own 2016 paintings entitled the Embrace (B Version) and born from the desire to bring places and people closer together, especially following a pandemic that has brought interpersonal relationships to their knees, hitting the weakest first and foremost; a project which, in a global vision of art, makes it a democratic tool to reach everyone and everywhere, creating involvement and discussion between people starting from the weakest and least protected groups, for a message of brotherhood against all types of racism and prejudice . Precisely for this project, in January 2023 Catania was nominated in the USA as the "unique global Ambassador of National Hugging Day".
https://embraceproject.org/
His love for photography and cinematography brings Cesare Catania with the short film entitled "The Imagination of a Child" to give an insight into his feelings and to try to describe to the world what an artist really feels when he produces art and what it is fundamental in his opinion to be able to be the creator of change with his art. All under the institutional umbrella of his artistic and socio-cultural project called "Embrace Project", the same project presented at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale with the sculpture of the same name called "The Embrace" and which is recalled in full in the experimental documentary entitled "The Imagination of a Child", intended by the artist and director himself both as a short film and as a real X-ray of his feelings during the creative process.
The artist's passions and inclinations also include scientific disciplines. Graduated in Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan, Cesare Catania expresses this technical preparation both in his productions destined for the Metaverse and in his art strongly linked to geometry and mathematics. This context includes the creation of real digital works of art minted as NFTs but always inspired by the more traditional meanings of his art. His love for kinetic art, digital art and dynamism derive mainly from an infinite love for photography and cinematography, subjects in which the artist loves to try his hand, reading them as a form of pure art.
This path led him in 2024 to develop the first "Manifesto of Democratic Art" in history, a list of 10 steps that accompany any artist in the creation of a work of art defined as "democratic" in a unique and absolute way.
