Daniele Panteghini

Daniele Panteghini was born in Lombardy (Italy) in 1980. After completing his medical studies, he decided to pursue his true passion: painting. In 2008, influenced in part by his mother’s South Tyrolean heritage, he moved to Vienna and studied under Erwin Bohatsch at the Academy of Fine Arts from 2011 to 2015. Since 2020, Panteghini has been living and working in Marchegg, Lower Austria, and has launched a series of solo exhibitions in the region.

At the heart of his work lies the “experimental liberation of material and the rediscovery of its potential spiritual meanings.” This approach is particularly evident in the relief-like structure of his pictorial objects, which are created by folding and crumpling sand-covered paper. Panteghini describes this process as “a contradiction that should be made fruitful through the act of painting: the concrete space of a relief serves as the vehicle for an abstract surface.”

His works unfold in coffered “small spaces” that not only serve as a link to the surrounding architecture but also create a visual environment of their own. Panteghini’s interest lies in the “search for the subject and form of the abstract image.” Questions such as “What is the essence and nature of a non-representational image? What does it refer to, and what substance does it embody?” form the central focus of the artist’s work—despite the more than 100-year history of abstract painting.

In his paintings, Panteghini develops “visual orders that depict something without representing it—similar to a ‘mark.’” Each work is a material space and a visual milieu that carries and unfolds spiritual reality within itself. The starting point for his compositions is always visible reality: light, the rhythm of the landscape, figures, and objects are not merely reworked but reoriented into an “order of visual meaning,” which he refers to as the “colored surface.”