Davide Dall’Osso was born in Pesaro in 1966. After measuring himself with various forms of art, he finds his primary form of expression in sculpture which leads him to deal with national and international realities, through installations, exhibitions and collaborations. He graduated as a prose actor at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Dramatic Arts in Milan in 1995.

After his studies he collaborates with the Colombian director Enrique Vargas with whom he experiments with sculpture as a means of creative expression.

In 1997 he was selected with a scholarship for the “Advanced course for professional actors” held by Luca Ronconi at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Here as a prose actor he works with various directors: Piero Maccarinelli, Enrique Vargas, Carlos Martin, Thierry Salmon, Alfredo Arias, Mauro Avogadro and Luca Ronconi. It is precisely in the shows by Piero Maccarinelli and Enrique Vargas, where the directors create an alchemy between the different arts on stage, that Davide Dall’Osso recognizes a belonging that will take him in a short time from the acting art to the sculptural one, and that in 2002 he will be selected together with a group of six sculptors from the Marches with the work “Elogio alla fuga” which will be exhibited in Piazza Olivieri in Pesaro.

The passion for theatre, for dance and for the visual arts immediately led him to choose the contamination of languages, stimulating him to undertake a study of the body, space and matter.

Theater and especially the work done on the large installations of Enrique Vargas traveling shows, inspired him to use sculpture as a means of creative expression.

From the beginning he has been mainly interested in the possibility of creating a key to understanding the spirituality of contemporary man through sculpture. This aspect will characterize his entire artistic career.

His material research moves parallel to his creation. The artist has an instinctive figurative ability, which immediately leads him to create life-size human and animal figures. In particular, it is the figure of the horse that strikes its expressiveness. Indeed, in the strong physicality of the horse, the artist recognizes the “spiritual impulses” of the man of his time. The first horses are made of clay and resin, and it is during this process that the artist takes a first step towards the search for new materials. The structures that must be created to support the clay which, once modeled, will become sculpture, are made of a real skeleton in rods, iron wire and metal mesh.

From this moment he begins to make large horses in metal wire completely hand-woven.

In addition to wire, the artist creates his works in cast polycarbonate. This technique, invented by him, allows him to work using the industrial waste of this plastic polymer, for an idea of green and circular economy. The metal wire weaving technique and the polycarbonate fusion sometimes meet in suggestive and dramatic works, as if the material itself of these works could tell itself beyond the sense of realization.

In 2014 together with his wife Maria Vittoria Gozio he opened the Atelier Dall’Osso.

The collaboration with the Biale Cerruti Art Gallery began in 2012. In 2018 the public exhibition “E’ tempo di mettersi in ascolto” was organized in Siena, curated by Maurizio Vanni in the space of Palazzo Patrizi. The artist exhibited with the Art Gallery in 2016 at the contemporary art fair Affordable Art Fair in Brussels, and in 2022, in collaboration with the Art Gallery, the major exhibition in Sicily “In un mondo perfetto” is held at the Castello Maniace in Ortigia edited by Maria Vittoria Gozio and Elena Violetti.

Transparency, passage of light, metamorphosis are the main components of Dall’Osso’s sculptural language.

The sculptures are made both in polycarbonate and mixing materials such as iron, copper, bronze, resin, iron wire, wire mesh.

Among the main events of his career we can mention:

“In un mondo perfetto”, public exhibition in Sicily, Castello di Maniace curated by Maria Vittoria Gozio and Elena Violetti;

“78th Venice International Film Festival”, collective exhibition of the works selected for the out-of-competition film “American Night” by director Alessio della Valle; the “Biennale Arte Luce”, a collective exhibition curated by Vittorio Erlindo in the studio house of Mantegna, Mantua;

The widespread exhibition “Il giardino segreto”, curated by Maria Vittoria Gozio in the large swimming pool in Piazza delle Sorgenti in Bagno Vignoni and in the spaces of the Albergo Posta Marcucci, Albergo Le Terme and Hotel Adler Thermae.

In 2018 “E’ tempo di mettersi in ascolto” personal exhibition curated by Maurizio Vanni, organized by the Biale Cerruti Art Gallery, Palazzo Patrizi, Siena;

“E quando il sole cade la città s’accende”, collective exhibition at the Polo Museale of Palazzo Ducale in Mantua curated by Vittorio Erlindo and installation by Davide Dall’Osso with the light designer Fabrizio Visconti, at the Cavallerizza of Palazzo Ducale;

In 2016 the sculptor studied, together with the set designer Riccardo Bocchini, a texture that allows the movement of the “Duende” to be brought into the Ariston stage and collaborated on the scenography of the “76th Sanremo Festival”.

For the project on the occasion of Expo Milano for the Slowfood pavilion, the work “Tree of food” was created;

“Sochi Paralympics”, 650 “Ice floes” are made for the inaugural show with the artistic direction of the Compagnia Finzi Pasca of Lugano. Sochi, Russia;

“Saga canto dei canti”, works and stage costumes for the post-Punk singer Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and for the Transhumant Court of Nasseta, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia.

For the show “La Verità” by the Finzi Pasca theater company in Lugano, he creates the sculpture “Grande Testa di cavallo”.

“54th Venice Biennale”, is among the artists selected for the Lombardy Region. He participates in the exhibitions of the Venice Biennale in the cities of Milan, Viterbo and Turin with the works and the performance “Ventocontro”.

“Espirit et Fureur”, installations and solo exhibition, as part of Equestria, Haras National, Tarbes, France;

“Presidio”, temporary installation of 120 sculptural bodies in Piazza Duca D’Aosta (Central Station) and in the Leoncavallo Self-Managed Public Space in Milan;

“La giostra dell’Apocalisse”, Between dissolution and rebirth. A project that combines theatre, music and visual arts. Collective exhibition curated by Lorella Giudici at the Rotonda della Besana, Milan.