Artist - Sculptor - Architect - Theater Maker - Set Designer
2014
Anyone who has spoken with him... has felt the sweat of a man of theater, of a professor of art history, of a refined sculptor, of a wayfarer with a few scraps and a suitcase of culture, of a man, Catholic and Marxist who votes PCI. This is only a part of Donati. The other part, if you pay attention, you discover through his "things," from the objects that repose on pedestals or hang provocatively on the walls. 
...Giacomo Battino
When we started counting to choose our teams on the playground, you always chose me first. I didn't understand if you did it out of sympathy or for my soccer capabilities. This has always been a dear and sweet memory that I have held for years; until reuniting with you at an art exhibition of yours with our mutual friend Piero Guccione. Afterwards, I exhumed that memory, translating it then into our stupendous human and cultural association. I remember one day I told you, You, Carlo, are my "extraordinary thing": your penetrating painting, your suffering imaginary, your stupendous solidarity with life, are teaching me to walk and maybe will make me discover myself a poet. How much I owe you and will always owe!
