Paolo Stefani
Paolo Stefani (born in 1976) lives and works in France and Italy. He graduated in 2002 from The European Institute of Design, studied Physics and General Anthropology at the Ecole du Louvre, Paris.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions since1999 in Italy, France, Germany and in solo exhibitions in USA, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, France.
Many works are collected in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium and USA.
He approached painting through the practice of mountaineering, the study of science and music, animal world, mythology.
He uses enamels, acrylics, pigments, clay. Organic and vegetable materials have been part of his research for a long time.
He paints on a wide range of media: printed canvas, flexible or stretched canvas, papier mâché, pages of physics books, jute, metals…
His paintings are indeed metaphors coming from emotive impulses related to nature and imagination but, at the same time, its reveals how far the artist stands from the academic tradition.
Paolo Stefani can be defined as an artist who is involved in multiple types of research and who considers painting to be “an evolutionary technology” that cannot be imprisoned in purism, which must achieve the absolute escape from visual reality that cubism began in 1908.
