Designer
Denis Santachiara
His training is self-taught, starting as a Car Stylist in the Italian motor valley at MWM in Modena and then at Maserati.
Since 1977 he has proposed works between art and design, exhibited at the Venice Biennale 1980, "All the arts tend towards Performance" Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara 1982, Documenta 8 Kassel 1988, Milan Triennale 1982/84/86/96/01/04, Rome Quadrennial 1998, Pac Milan 1999, Valencia Biennale 2005, St Etienne Biennale 2006, "Domani ora" - Luxembourg Art Museum 2007.
In 1984 he proposed "La Neomerce, the design of invention and artificial ecstasy", Milan Triennale and Centre Pompidou in Paris, an exhibition manifesto and international reference for a new performative, technopoetic design; introducing a new and unprecedented relationship with technology into design.