Daniel Maillet

The attraction of painting from life and the intricacies of working with, studying and portraying the human body: these are the starting points of the work of Daniel Maillet (born in Zurich in 1956), who began his training as an engraver in the studio of his father Leo, a pupil of Max Beckmann, and later graduated from the Brera Academy where he studied under the tutelage of Beppe Devalle and Zeno Birolli.

Maillet's Italian phase includes a brief period in which he worked with Roberto Sambonet, and subsequently with Clino Castelli.

The death of his father took him back to Ticino, where he still lives.

This volume contains a series of life-size drawings on paper devoted to the "psychology of racism," and a group of clay sculptures, also life-sized, made in Brazil, the birthplace of his wife.

Linked by their lack of complacency, the portraits and sculptures gaze out at us, moving us with tales of life, love and death.