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Center’s Foyer Gallery in Vero Beach.
David was born into an artistic family in Italy; both his
father and grandfather painted fine art. By the time he was 6,
he was displaying a natural talent for drawing, so his parents
gave him an assignment to draw a new subject every day.
He says he never stopped studying and practicing once he
discovered art, even through his years of rebellious living.
The young man spent what has been described by a biographer
as a reckless, soul-searching youth. Although he always
knew his destiny would be a lifetime of art, the road to that
goal was a winding one, with more than a few bumps and
potholes along the way.
At the end of WWII, not yet in his teens, David began studies
at a Franciscan seminary but after a few years knew that
it wasn’t the life for him. Out in the world again, against his
parents’ wishes, he began five years of a classical curriculum
at the High School of Science, Liceo Scientifico in Benevento,
the Italian province where he was born.
With his parents relocated to the United States, David’s
free-wheeling period followed. He worked on set design for
a theater in Naples and opened art studios with a friend in
Rome and Benevento. His cultural world and curiosity grew,
as his fusionism painting style continued to take shape. He
wrote his Manifesto of Fusionism, his theory that pulls together
all the studies of the best in art, in 1956. In 1962, he joined his
parents in northern New Jersey.
David’s birthplace, a small town in the Campania region of
Italy northwest of Naples, had a quiet beauty, much like what
he found in Vero Beach when he first visited in 2003.
“One of my art collectors living in Florida invited me to be
their guest in Vero Beach” David said. “I was introduced to >>
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David puts
the finishing
touches on
The Deposition
while working
in his Vero
Beach studio.
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