www.danielespano.com

After training as a set designer, Daniele Spanò began his activity as a director and visual artist especially in the field of performance and video art in which he carries out, in equal measure, a deep research and experimentation.
Between the years 2004 and 2008 he is involved in experimentation with real-time video in both analog and digital. This research led him to work as resident VJ in clubs: DC10 in Ibiza, Brancaleone and Goa Club in Rome. His live video shows have been programmed in numerous European festivals such as Dissonanze, Sonar and Womad flanking the live performances of musicians such as Mattew Herbert, Aphex Twin, Telefon Tel Aviv, Jeff Miils, Carl Cox, and many others.
In 2005 he will be part of the creative team supporting the famous video artist Gary Hill for the realization of his installation Resounding Arches at the Colosseum in Rome.
In February 2011 he was selected by the famous director and artist Takeshi Kitano to represent the artistic ferment of the city of Rome for a television format he hosted called Takeshi’s Art Beat. From 2012 to 2015 he became artistic consultant for the Romaeuropa Foundation and curator of the DigitaLife exhibition at the La Pelanda museum in Rome. The various editions he curated were in collaboration with Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, and Elektra – BIAN International Art Festival & Biennial. In the same period he began the production of large-scale works on monumental buildings through the technique of videomapping. Since 2014, a collaboration with Luca Brinchi was born, with whom he creates multimedia content for numerous theatrical performances. This fruitful collaboration will lead the two to measure themselves with the work of directors such as Federico Tiezzi, Massimo Popolizio, Fabrizio Arcuri, Andrea Baracco, Lisa Natoli, Valter Malosti and many others.
In 2016 he designs and realizes the multimedia show for the presentation of the Gucci woman collection, in the same year together with Luca Brinchi, he signs the direction the scenes and the videos of the show Aminta produced by the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana and the Teatro di Roma.
From 2016 to 2020 his research in the visual arts brings him to exhibit his works In Armenia, the United States and Russia as well as in Italy. Among the most important works: Line In The Sand multimedia installation at Made in New York – Media Art Centre (NY City) 2019, Orbis site-specific video-installation at Cafesjian Center for the Arts – Yerevan (Armenia) produced and promoted by the Italian Embassy in Armenia in 2019, Quello che non ricordo, site-specific installation at Teatro Valle in Rome, produced by Teatro di Roma celebratory project of William Kentridge’s work Triumphs and Laments. Il Giardino dei Sogni indoor video-mapping at Palazzo Venezia, project included within Giorgione’s exhibition I Labirinti del Cuore produced and promoted by MIBAC 2017, Pneuma Multimedia installation included in the program of the 58th edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi 2015, Spoleto.
Since 2019 he is professor of Multimedia Direction at the Academy of Fine Arts RUFA in Rome.

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