Born in Treviso, Italy, Davide was introduced to the art of metalsmithing by his father Alessandro and by the sculptor Toni Benetton. He studied jewelry and metalsmithing at the Institute of Art in Venice and in 2003, he obtained his degree in architecture at IUAV, Venice, Italy.
After working as a licensed architect in Italy for several architectural firms, especially with Toni Follina, he moved to the USA in 2007. In 2010, he earned his Master of Arts in Art, and in 2011 his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Fontbonne University, Saint Louis, MO where he studied under the guidance of Hank Knickmeyer and developed a personal sculptural process, mixing traditional metal casting and new technologies such as 3D printing and laser scanning.
In 2011, Davide moved to Washington, DC. He started working as a professor of Fine Art at the GWU Corcoran School of Art + Design as a professor of "Metalsmithing," and “Sculpture and New Technologies”, at Catholic University as Director of the Fab Lab and lecturer in digital fabrication. He started working for the University of the District of Columbia in 2018 where he is now Associate Professor of Fine Arts teaching Introduction and Advanced Sculpture, Introduction and Advanced Ceramics, Art and New Technologies, Digital Imaging, Interdisciplinary Art, etc.
In 2014, Davide received his diploma from Fab Academy, an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, where he studied digital fabrication with Neil Gershenfeld, and in 2020 his certificate in Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production from MIT.
His work has been shown at national and international venues (Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, England, France, Finland, and the USA), and his urban scale sculptures are installed in Italy and the USA. Recently, his work has focused on new technologies such as 3D printing, laser scanning, and traditional metalsmithing techniques. On his last projects, mathematical equations provided him with a pretext to connect symbolic images with a new language, to discover what he called "A new form of shamanism."