MY ART FOR SOLACE and WONDER
Daniel Salvi
Daniel Salvi (b. 1994) lives and works in the countryside of Milan, Italy.
Daniel Salvi is an Italian artist and creative director whose multidisciplinary practice spans fine art, digital creation, and multisensory experience. Known for his series GODDESSES & MUSES, he explores the intersection between mythology, femininity, and contemporary spirituality through mixed-media digital artistry — that blends photography, artificial intelligence, digital painting, and retouching — as well as the use of music and olfactory art.
Drawing upon philosophical and ecological thought, Salvi deconstructs and reinterprets classical, Italian, and Renaissance imagery, using myth as a lens to question the human condition. Salvi channels his beliefs and values in a vision where humanity and nature coexist in harmony, inspiring empathy, solace, and resilience.
Salvi is regarded for his mastery in the use of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool. Far from treating it as a mere technical aid, he wields it as a medium through which his complex vision and inner world become a visible and audible reality.
Salvi’s art practice extends beyond the visual: his immersive installations combine soundtracks and olfactory experiences, transforming the act of viewing into a ritual of reflection.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions and peace-related initiatives across Italy and abroad, including collaborations with the international charity organization "Colors for Peace", of which he is Brand Communication Officer, since 2021.
Curriculum Vitae
Daniel Salvi
Born in Taranto, Italy, 1994
Lives and works in Nerviano (Milan, IT)
Education
2019 — Master’s Degree in Communication Design, Politecnico di Milano
2019 — High Training Diploma in Licensing and Brand Extension, POLI.Design
2016 — Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design, Politecnico di Milano
Solo Exhibitions
2024 — Goddesses & Muses – OBLIVION, Corals Gallery – HubArt, Milan (IT)
2024 — Dee & Muse – In dialogo con Bergognone, Town Hall, Nerviano (Milan, IT)
2024 — Goddesses & Muses in the Metaverse, M.O.K.A. Museum, Metaverse
2023 — Goddesses & Muses, Lynk & Co Milan Club, Milan (IT)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 — Colors for Peace, Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, Rome (IT)
2024 — Espressioni Meccaniche, Piccolo Teatro Digitale, Pontedera (Pisa, IT)
2018 — Ubuntu, MUBA Museum, Milan (IT)
Professional Experience
2016–ongoing — Founder & Creative Director, Daniel Salvi – Branding & Design Consulting
2021–ongoing — Brand Communication Officer, Colors for Peace
2018 — Graphic Designer & Assistant, Armando Milani Design
2018 — Brand Design Consultant, EDC – Beijing Shexianghui Information Technology Co.
2017–2018 — Professor Assistant, Politecnico di Milano
2015–ongoing — Contributor, Pirati Grafici Web Magazine
From the top floor of a skyscraper to the earth of the Italian Countryside
The Emotional Renaissance of Daniel Salvi
and his journey to wonder
For nearly a decade, Daniel Salvi navigated the rigorous geometries and concrete objectives of visual communication.
At just twenty-one, he founded his own agency, became the creative director of international campaigns, and was soon invited as a lecturer and guest speaker at prestigious Italian universities.
What could have been the beginning of a brilliant career among the great names of the field gradually collided, year after year, with an unrelenting thirst for dream and pure wonder.
That world — where emotions, humanity, and ethics are often for sale — had become, for Salvi, so cold and dark that it resembled the harsh winters of Hamburg, the city he had long called home.
View of Hamburg. Photo: © Daniel Salvi, 2 February 2023
His decisive choice to leave Germany and return to Italy marked a symbolic descent into his deepest roots: from the office on the top floor of a skyscraper in the city center, Daniel returned to the ground floor of his studio, nestled in the countryside outside Milan.
There, among the warm hues of Italy’s flourishing vegetation and the sun-worn stone walls, he found the energy to give voice to a new kind of creativity — an art that invites the viewer to lose themselves, to question, to confront their own human impulses, and to rediscover a forgotten sense of wonder.
This Emotional Renaissance became the heart of a multisensory experience — deeply human in theme and authentically Italian in iconography — an intimate encounter with visual worlds where one can perceive the same spark of peace and awe the artist himself has rediscovered.
It is not merely an escape into beauty, but an act of poetic activism: an invitation to rediscover empathy, coexistence with nature, and peace.
The worlds Salvi now creates are open windows onto mythical yet timeless realities — profoundly contemporary in their resonance. They speak to the most untouched part of our being and offer an embrace of vitality — across visual, olfactory, and musical art — that anyone, anywhere, can call their own.
Cava Nervilago, Countryside of Milan. Photo: © Daniel Salvi, 21 August 2025
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