BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID CIANNI
Metal Artist
David grew up in a Villa Nueva Guatemala where he studied at the elementary educational level and he started to stand out with his talent for drawing, painting and handcrafts. He won various awards including one at the national level in his country.
He earned a (BS) bachelor’s degree in industrial and mechanical arts at: Institute Technical Vocational from Dr. Imrich Fischmann in Guatemala.
At 17 years of age he emigrated to the U.S. to the city of Los Angeles, California and he became an American Citizen.
There he began to work in a metal shop where he acquired experience as a welder, then he became the head draftsman and shortly stepped up to management. In 1990 he opened his own company, Zenitram Art Metal Work. (Zenitram is Martinez spelled backwards, this is what he uses as his signature trademark). There he specialized in making ballroom lighting fixtures and furniture for the national and international hotel industry.
Being in the metal fabrication industry David has seen the need for extreme recycling and is a promoter of reusing the components he encounters on his daily work cycles. Many of these scrap components which can no longer used for a job end up as a part on his art collection.
In 1999, he was discovered by an event organizer Sol Guzman from a talent production company in Burbank California and was encouraged to showcase his art at a private art exhibition. There he was recognized by local city mayors and the local entertainment industry.
Through his art David wishes to convey the need to recycle and inspire young and old to use and reuse our precious resources. He has started an art technique in which he blends components that are mechanical, these resemble bionic engineering, they mimic natures organisms and are made of recycled materials, this he calls “M-BORA” (Mechanical-Bionic- Organic-Recyclable goes to extremes on showing why we must take care of our planet and recycle, and why
we should also get along. He brings to our attention that while we are in the process of saving our planet why not get creative with it.
In 2006 David moved to South Carolina where he continues to work with metal work.
He also has continued to generate more metal art forms, one of which has become a local icon in Aiken and has made a run for itself into the wild. David’s Palmetto Run art piece made it to the cover of the “Welcome Aiken 2008: Greater Aiken Community Guide” distributed by The Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce.
In 2012 he was with the M-BORA project at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia South Carolina.
David Cianni has been interviewed by different local and national magazines and newspapers in the last few years. He has also done important projects for different churches making chandeliers like Saint Mary Catholic Church in Aiken South Carolina and Sacred Heart in Knoxville Tennessee. So, David Cianni has made art projects with different schools in his community.
David currently runs Cianni Art Studio-Custom Metal art work. Where he is involved in the manufacturing of customized components for local corporations and for the equine industry.
David believes that through hard work one can achieve great feats and is enthusiastic of what the future holds for his family, his shop and his career.