Stefano Di Stasio's timeless art on display at Foiano della Chiana's Bagnai Gallery

Until July 24, 2021, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai in Foiano della Chiana (Arezzo) is hosting the solo exhibition of artist Stefano Di Stasio (Naples, 1948), entitled Figure dell’incerto and curated by Vittoria Coen. The Arezzo exhibition includes works created especially for the event, which thus features a large and interesting selection of unpublished works, made between 2019 and 2020, of medium and large dimensions that mark an important turning point in his research and ideally reconnect with his early experiments of the 1970s.

Di Stasio, the author of an art that wants to be understood as a timeless force, uses painting that brings together technique and improvisation to narrate a vital research experience that even today appears free from momentary influences and fashions. With his works, Di Stasio wants to look beyond the limit of the canvas, making painting become fairy tale, tale, dream, ideality. The works are made with great and meticulous attention to detail, in a counterpoint of images and colors that gives rise to the “silent” and long-considered concert. The work New Coordinates, for example, a work made in 2020, appears almost as a manifesto of the artist’s new turn: large, strong, direct caesuras that enhance images without boundaries of space and time.

“The reappropriation of some abstract element within the representation,” the artist explains, “is giving me a new enthusiasm, something dormant in my imagination, for many years kept at bay by the perverse need to re-invent the figurative language of the pre-modern tradition, but which now, in the construction of the painting, can intervene and combine with the figures and scenes usual in my painting.” The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with text by Stefano Di Stasio and introductory essay by Vittoria Coen.

Stefano Di Stasio was born in Naples in 1948, but his family moved to Rome in 1950. He currently lives between Rome and Spoleto. He should be counted among the protagonists of the return to image painting that characterized the last twenty years of the 20th century. In addition to his participation in Aperto 82 of the 1982 Venice Biennale, he was present with solo rooms at the subsequent Biennales of 1984 and 1995. He participated in the X, XI, XII, XIII Quadriennale Nazionale dArte in Rome. He has participated in numerous important National and International group exhibitions. Between 2001 and 2004 he made an entire painting cycle, on Franciscan stories, for the new church in Terni Santa Maria della Pace, designed by Paolo Portoghesi. His works are present in the Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The gallery opens Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays by appointment. For info and reservations you can visit the Alessandro Bagnai Gallery website. Below is a selection of works by Stefano Di Stasio that can be seen at the Alessandro Bagnai Gallery.

Stefano Di Stasio, Diana’s Room (2018; oil on canvas, 100 x 145 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Unaltra luce (2018; oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Miracle of the Wind (2020; oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Secretum (2020; oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Evening Games (2019; oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Evening Lights (2020; oil on canvas, 120 x 210 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Periphery of Gestures (20117; oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio, Magic Dance (2019; oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm)

Stefano Di Stasio's timeless art on display at Foiano della Chiana's Bagnai Gallery

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