Riva GLDF born in Bari in 1977, he graduated from Ca’Foscari University in Venice in Oriental Languages and Literature and the School of Interpreters and Translators.
After a long period in Japan, he graduated from the Nagano Gaigo Art Academy.
He used his time in Asia to evolve the usual Eurocentric point of view typical of western education before returning to Italy and assiduously attending the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
As a coastguard, he learns a love for the sea, its beauty and its dangers; he collaborates with a small movement of young artists involved in the figurative arts, with whom he organises group and solo exhibitions open to the public.
He creates and adheres with them to the “Manifesto of dissociation and new decomposition” where some considerations and personal orientations in the field of art and neuroaesthetics are clear. A member of the “Italia Nostra” Association, he has at heart the interest and protection of the territory in terms of respect for nature and cultural heritage