Daniel Schinasi Biography
Daniel Schinasi (Alexandria, Egypt, 17 May 1933) is an Italian painter, founder of the so-called "Neofuturist movement". Schinasi will continue his Neofuturist manifesto (1987 Paris, 1988 London) aided by Prof. Vincenzo Marotta. Art has an ideological and educational function, the classic dynamism of Futurism now aims, through a reconstruction of forms, at a global renewal of man and his environment, increasingly crushed by consumerism. His commitment to memory, to "not forgetting", led him to often paint the theme of the Holocaust and problems concerning the Jewish people. Theater and music (especially jazz) will influence numerous of his works, just as the train, a protagonist in his youth, will lead him to create several panels scattered in many Italian and French stations: Cecina, Pisa, Nice (one of the two panels has been moved in the municipality of Cascina), Grosseto. Since 1970 he has created large murals and paintings in the Sala Corse of the Tenuta di San Rossore Pisa, where he also created other works, a panel for the entrance to the Orthopedic Clinic of the hospital, the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering and the of the Council of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
