Davide Rivalta (Bologna,1974). His artistic career was launched when we won the competition for an artwork for permanent display in the courtyard of the Tribunale di Ravenna in 1998. marked the beginning of his career. His preferred techniques are sculpture, drawing, and painting. Rivalta has permanent works in Ravenna, San Martino in Rio (Reggio Emilia), Neuchâtel, Florence, Rome, Mougins, and Dublin. He has exhibited in many Italian and foreign museums and institutional spaces, including GAM, Bologna, 2005; MAN, Nuoro 2005; MARCA, Catanzaro, 2008; Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (Gorizia), 2008 and 2009; Galleria Civica di Modena, 2010; MAMBO, Bologna, 2010; Galleria Civica di Trento, 2014; Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago (Florence), 2005 and 2010; Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, 2006; Strozzina, Florence 2009; Villa Romana, Florence 2011; Museo della basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo), 2015; Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2016; National Gallery of Medern and Contemporary Art of Rome, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2023; Forte di Belvedere, Florence 2019; Brescia castle, 2023; and the Dublin castle, 2023. In 2010 he partecipated in the first Aichi Triennale, (Arts and Cities) in Nagoya and, in 2019, in the 22nd Milan Triennale. In 2017, he began placing his artworks in urben settings: first in Antibes, then in Neuchâtel and Gstaad, in 2018 and in Mougins in 2020. In 2019, two of his Lions were put in permanent display in the Quirinale Palace in Rome, which led to exhibitions in the Presidential Estate in Castel Porziano; in Palazzo Borromeo, seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome; in Villa Firenze, seat of the Italian Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC; in Lucan House, ex-seat of the Italian Embassy in Dublin, now Parco Italia; Villa Taverna, residence of the ambassador for the United States in Rome; in the Italian Embassy to Norway and the Oscarshall Palace; at the Italian Embassy in Riyadhand and the Al-Nafal Park in the Diplomatic Quarter. Many scholars and critics have written about his work, including Pier Luigi Tazzi, Cristiana Collu, Angelika Stepken, Marinella Paderni, Alessandro Sarri, Renata Cristina Mazzantini, Davide Ferri, Guido Molinari, Saretto Cincinelli, Leonardo Caffo, Mary Heffernan and Kieran Owens.