Biography
Davide Mattera, known as Dasly (1984 Italy), multidisciplinary artist and international tattoo artist living in Barcelona, Spain.
I approached street art at a young age, using the walls as a canvas.
Always fascinated by what was underground, against the system and outside the box, I discovered tat...
Davide Mattera, known as Dasly (1984 Italy), multidisciplinary artist and international tattoo artist living in Barcelona, Spain.
I approached street art at a young age, using the walls as a canvas.
Always fascinated by what was underground, against the system and outside the box, I discovered tattooing.
I've been tattooing in ornamental and tribal style for 16 years, in different countries and continents, and this has allowed me to explore different cultures, to touch with my hands what I had read in anthropology books, to discover and deepen different art forms, from the craftsmanship of the Amazon tribes to Tibetan painting.
In fact, my art is inspired by Folk art, Graffiti, Pre-Columbian art, Indian art, African art, Primitive art and my personal studies on the esoteric world.
Also influenced by the surrealist painting current and great artists such as Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, DeChirico or the futurist Depero.
Scenarios or objects in the foreground, heavy, textured, lived, referring to a mystical imagination, recreating places or situations that remain in a timeless parallel dimension, are the expression of concepts contained in my inner being.
Visionary paintings in their hybrid fusion, which I do not like to categorize in an artistic current, but rather become my personal language of expression.
I believe that art is creation and man the creator, and as such, I am interested in his complete process.
