Stefano Fanara born in Favara (AG), Italy 11-02-1963.

I was drawn to art as a child.

Began with painting, first with tempera, then acrylics, china, oils, and water base paint…The techniques used were diverse as were the numerous mentors who imparted the most varied artistic and cultural experiences.

At the same time, there were many acquaintances with personalities in the field of art within the region of Sicily, of which several have become close friends.

In 1989, I transferred to Modena where I began my career as an elementary school teacher. Gifted at experimentation and applying new techniques in the fields of painting and photography, I also became interested in dance, meditation, and theatre.

In the past few years, this search for other means of expression has allowed me to work with noted personalities in the field of theatre and painting.

1995- 1996 – Cecar Brie – ARGENTINA – Theatre and Painting;

1996 – Alfonso Sant’ Agata – ITALY – Theatre;

1997 – Francis Pardeilhan – U.S.A. – Theatre and Painting;

1998 – Prashant – Italy – Painting;

1999 – Enrique Vargas – COLOMBIA – Theatre and Painting;

2005 - Jane Champion - Australia; Cinema.

2005 - Dario Fo - Painting - Works for Amnesty International.

2006 Fusako Yusaki – Japan; Cinema.

2006 Alan Parker -U.K.; Cinema.

2007 Giuseppe Torantore;Cinema

Other works done contemporarily along with the experiences listed above as well as my work as teacher, and theatrical, photographic, and pictorial, experiences:

October 1996 – Photographic selection FIT, Airone, Italy, WWF National (itinerant art show in Abruzzo).

December 1996 – Communal Theatre of Modena, Italy – representation of the play “Strani Giorni” (Strange Days) of which I managed production and set design.

June- 1997 – Participated at an exhibition at La Galleria called “Il Paradisino” in Modena, Italy and won the critic’s choice award.

July 1997 – Art Exhibition in Bagnolo (Re), Italy.

September – 1997 – Personal art exhibit at the Galleria Clu in Modena, Italy

December 1997 - Collective art exhibit- theme “Sinergie” at Quattro Castella (Re), Italy.

December 1997/January 1998- Personal art exhibit- theme “Meditazione e Art” (Meditation and Art) in Modena, Italy.

February 1998 – Pictorial intervention on behalf of television production “Help” by Red Ronnie on Italian T.V. channel TMC2.

March 1998 – Personal art exhibit at the Galleria Torre Strozzi in Modena -Italy.

March/April 1998 – International collective at the cultural centre S. Giorgetto in Verona, Italy on behalf of the Galleria Linea 70 and Giacobbe Spazio of Milano.

May/June – Personal exhibit at the Castello del Vescovo di Arceto in Scandiano (Re), Italy.

June 1998 – Participated in the 3rd biennial Nazionale di Pittura (National Painting)

in Rimini, Italy. Won 16th award of honour “Bellariva”.

June 1998 – Participation in National painting exhibit sponsored by Claudio and Luca Zanetti in Osio Di Sotto (Bergamo), Italy. Won XII national award.

July 1998 - Personal exhibit at the Centro Torre Strozzi in Parlesca (PG), Italy.

Summer 1998 – Participation in an international art project called “Resurrezione” sponsored by the Region of Umbria and the city of Foligno regarding intervention of dislocated containers in the territory-Italy

September 1998 – Personal exhibit at the Clu’ gallery in Modena, Italy.

October 1998- Collaborated with Italian T.V. network RAI 2 in a special dedicated to Scopoli, called “Progetto Resurrezione”.

October 1998 – Presented video called “La Creazione del Sogno” (Creation of a Dream) directed by Benny Caramanna –Modena -Italy.

01/12/1998- 13/12/1998 – Personal exhibit at the Spazio Arte (Art Space) gallery in Spoleto (PG), Italy.

08/03/1999- 20/03/1999 – Participated in art exhibit called “Senza Titolo” at the Antonio Battaglia Gallery in Milano, Italy.

13/03/1999- 24/03/1999 – Personal exhibit at the Gnaccarini gallery in Bologna, Italy.

05/05/1999- 09/05/1999 – Participated in ARTEXPO ’99 in the The International Contemporary Art Fair in Barcellona, Spain.

July 1999 Personal exhibit in Rubiera (Re), Italy sponsored by the Minister of Culture.

12/06/1999- 23/06/1999 – Participated in a collective exhibit at the Gnaccarini gallery in Bologna, Italy.

Summer 1999 – Participated in 2nd Salon de Juillett at the Galleria La Bacheca in Cagliari, Italy.

30/07/1999- 12/08/1999 – Participated in art exhibit “Glorie Bertrand Kass” in Innsbruk, Austria.

Summer 1999 – Participated in international project called “Le Vele Della Speranza” on behalf of the city of Foligno in Perugia and the Regione of Umbria for earthquake

Victims at the National Art Museum in Cremona, Italy.

August 1999 – Participated in art exhibit curated by Luciano Lepri called “Artificialmente” at Torre Strozzi Parlesca in Perugia, Italy.

Personal Art exhibit called “Water” –Villa Ada in the city of Bagni Di Lucca -Italy

September 1999 – Art exhibit called “Artificialmente” at the Art and culture Centre Torre Strozzi in Modena, Italy.

September 1999 – Participated in art exhibit of 11 artists along with the Minister of Culture at the communal library in Bagnolo in Piano (Re), Italy.

13/11/1999- 01/12/1999 – Personal exhibit at the Gnaccarini gallery in Bologna, Italy.

19/12/1999- 08/01/1999 – Personal exhibit 2nd Rinascimento gallery in Bologna, Italy.

03/12/1999- 12/12/1999 – International Biennial Contemporary Art Fair in Florence, Italy.

November 1999 – Participated in a collective art exhibit at the Galleria Modigliani in Milano, Italy.

December 1999 – Personal exhibit at the 2nd Rinascimento gallery in Bologna, Italy.

December 1999 – Participated in the International Art Fair at Lineart Flanders Expo in Gent, Belgium.

January 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates.

February/March 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at Gallery of Modern Art in Sassuolo, Modena - Italy.

February 2000 – Participated in art exhibit Start 2000 in Strasburg Art Fair in France.

March 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at the New York Expo –U.S.A.

April 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at the Holland Art Fair in Den Haag, Holland.

May 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at Artexpo 2000 in Barcellona, Spain.

Summer 2000 – Participated in art exhibit at the Forum Artis Museum in Montese (Modena), Italy.

October 2000 – Participated in art exhibit called “Millenium Art” at the Palazzo Valentini in Rome, Italy.

September 2001- Received International Art Award at the art exhibit Pavia Giovane Arte Europea at the Palazzo Della Provincia in Pavia, Italy.

December 2004 – Participated in the International Art Fair Lineart Flanders Expo in Gent, Belgium.

January/February 2005 – Received award at the Biennial International Art Fair Torre Strozzi in Parlesca (Perugia), Italy.

March 2005 – Personal art exhibit at the Felrinelli gallery in Modena, Italy.

March/April 2005 – Participated in a collective exhibit called “Anteprima” at the Galleria D’Arte 18 in Bologna, Italy.

April/May 2005 – Personal exhibit called “Abitart” in Carpi, Italy

04/06/2005- 12/06/2005 – Participated in art exhibit called “Dreamers of Colors”

at the Castello Estense di Ferrara (Sale Dell’ Imbarcadero). Also, Ferrara Pro Art at the Sekanina gallery in Ferrara, Italy.

August 2005 – Participated in exhibit called “Artexit” at the Fortezza Medicea di Girifalco in Cortona (Arezzo), Italy.

September 2005 – Participated in exhibit called “Artisti Per La Pace” (Artists for Peace) at the Centro Torre Strozzi in Parlesca (Perugia), Italy.

December 2005 – Participated in exhibit called “Colors of Venice” at the Centro D’Arte in San Vidal, Italy.

GALERIE MARIE CLAUDE GOINARD – PARIS –FRANCE 28/01/2006 – 25/02/2006

VISUALARTNIGHT – MILAN - ITALY15/10/2005 10/03/2003

VITARTE – ART IS WORK – FIERA D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DI VITERBO – Italy 03/05/MARZO 2006

I COLORI DI AMNESTY – GALLERIA COMUNALE DEL COMUNE DI CESENA- Italy DAL 25/02/2006 AL 12/03/2006

IMMAGINA VIDEO FESTIVAL – LEINI TORINO – Italy VIDEOPROIEZIONE DEL VIDEO I SETTE PECCATI CAPITALI DAL 03/04/ AL 08/04/2006

BIBLIOTECA RUFFILLI – COMUNE DI BOLOGNA –ITALY VIDEOPROIEZIONE DEI VIDEO: I SETTE PECCATI CAPITALI, IL GIGANTE EGOISTA E ITALIANO MEDIO DAL 01/04/206 AL 08/04/2006

ARTECONTEMPORANEA – MILAN– Italy PERSONALE – DAL SEGNO ALLA RAGIONE DAL 10/04/2006 AL 24/04/2006

PRIMAVERANDA –AUDITORIUM DI BUDRIO – Italy TEATRO CONSORZIALE DI BUDRIO (BO) – MAY 2006

MUSEO DEL DIVENIRE – SCOPOLI DI FOLIGNO – PERUGIA - Italy -APRILE-MAY 2006

GALLERIA PRIMOPIANO LIVING GALLERY – LECCE –ITALY MAGGIO –GIUGNO 2006 – PRESENNTAZIONE DEI VIDEO- LA SCATOLA DELLE STRATEGIE COMUNICATIVE – LISBON BREATH

GALLERIA LE TELE TOLTE – CALCATA (VT) - Italy PRESENTATION ART GRAFIC CURATED MARCELLO RICCIONI –JUNE– JULIE 2006

COMUNE DI CUPRAMONTANA (AN) - iTALY MUSEO NAZIONALE DELL'ETICHETTA – VINIIMMAGINE –JUNE– JULIE 2006

AGORA GALLERY – NEW YORK – U.S.A –– JULIE 2006 AGOST 2006

CINETECA OF I BOLOGNA – OFFICINEMA FESTIVAL PREMIO LUCA DE NIGRIS – 2° E 3° PREMIO CON I VIDEO – NOI STRANIERI E PER TE NOVEMBER 2006

UNIVERSITA' OF BOLOGNA – ITALY FACOLTA' DI MAGISTERO E SCIENZE DELLA FORMAZIONE – PRESENTATION THE BOOK 50 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY– DECEMBER 2006

PADIGLIONE ITALIA AND FONDAZIONE CARISBO OF I BOLOGNA -13x17 BOLOGNA SI RIVELA - CHIESETTA DI SANTA CRISTINA 27/01/2007- 28/01/2007 - CURATED I PHILIPPE DAVERIO

PADIGLIONE ITALIA - STUDIO MIC -13x17 ROMA - /01/02/2007 -l 10/02/2007 CURATED PHILIPPE DAVERIO

GALLERIA ALPHACENTAURI - PARMA ITALY - WORKS IN PERMANENCE L 15/10/2006 - 10/03/2007

GALLERIA SEKANINA - FERRARA ITALY - WORKS IN PERMANENCE L 15/10/2006 - 10/03/2007

GALLERIA SPAZIONOVE - FAENZA (RA) ITALY WORKS IN PERMANENCE L 15/10/2006 - 10/03/2007

VITARTE - ART IS WORK - IN-VISIBIL-ARTE - CURATED GIORGIO DI GENOVA AND LAURA RAMOINO - VITERBO - ITALY

June 2007 - Presentation of the video Portuguese Breath at the Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda , Lithuania

June-November 2007 - Collective Exhibition at the Berengo Studio , Pavilion Italia, event occurred in occasion of the 52 nd Venice Biennale

August 2007 - River's Edge Film Festival , taking part in with the video Basta , Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona , Spain

November 2007 - Caos , Personal Exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte 18, Bologna

In April of 1999, I collaborated with Columbian director Enrique Vargas on a research project called “Memoria Del Vino O I Giochi di Dioniso” produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro. The process of the research has brought into realization of a new show that debuted in Bologna and global preview in June of 2000. The collaboration had facilitated the collaboration of the creation of the stage design.

In 1998, I collaborated with a group of colleagues in an experimental work based

On several meditative techniques that were transposed into the artistic field. The finalization of the work at the end of the year 2000 had inspired a book edited by the publishing house “Urra” and is titled “Meditazione e Arte” (Meditation and Art).

The project was initiated by an encounter with the American writers Wadut and Waduda, authors of the book “Alchemy and Transformation” also edited by Urra.

During the project, the press relative to the subject, Flash Art Italia, and the Italian television network, RAI 2, became interested by writing articles, reviews and broadcasting of T.V. programs.

The work, which continued until 2001, became a means of introspection in which the experience of the truth within and the expression of its beauty flowed together becoming a pulsation, a yin and yang, two wings for flight.

The meditation experience in the past few years has brought me in contact with the various levels of my inner being, and painting has allowed me to express these sensations directly.

The paintings during the years 1998- 2001 were the fruit of self- experimentation, exploration, inner transformation, healing, and reorganization of the softer inner levels.

The work on meditation before and the paintings after had provided a form of analysis of my inner being, an inner travel based on energy. The creative act was inspired by spontaneity of lines and signs. Work was based on the emission of energy, energy that flowed into a single track where every sign is that what it is.

I never tried to connect the lines of energy and signs all together, never trying plan or construct an imagine; I left them to accumulate sign on sign, shade on shade.

Within this process, I still continue in that mode of not planning, not defining; the objective is that of creating a process of which the action is not toward a beautiful art work but to create a contact between the hand and the energy of the Cosmo.

Allowing the energy to move means allowing the hand to move without any mental control, seeking the state of being of an empty channel, entering into a state of all that which is unknown, and having faith of the unknown; this is a key point to my paintings, having faith that something will happen without knowing how and without controlling anything. All the signs I leave freely often end up organizing themselves by themselves by way of unpredictable patterns which are newer, more beautiful, more interesting, more mysterious, than those usually planned.

With meditation, my sense of space and time have changed. From the exterior aspect of my paintings, one can intuit the present compressed in space and time.

The techniques of meditation experimented have distracted my sense of self from all that I had learned to be important and indispensable for survival. This conviction is becoming more and more a part of me, almost as if it were a certainty to last forever as a part of my wardrobe.

Observing my works that have taken me toward this change, the fruit of analysis on deeper levels, I seem to intuit a sense of mystery as if my curiosity has increased towards the things occult- mystery, hidden or obscure feelings. This curiosity has almost helped to remind me of who I am. It has been a stimulus for growth and expansion and has allowed me to begin to remember what is my true nature.

With the meditation experience, my paintings have changed 360 degrees. The temporal projection has changed. I feel as if now, more than ever, I am being projected into the present. All of this has allowed me to project myself into the present future, to expand myself, and to have a sense of anticipation for certain events. It seems that my paintings now are projected in more directions.

In the past, they were unidirectional. I asked for a response, and I threw myself only in one direction. I was reluctant to try other possibilities for the sake of pictorial coherence. In reality, I had no idea of all that was at my disposal.

Meditation has brought me towards the present, towards awareness of not knowing what the next moment will bring, regardless of the accuracy with which one can plan a work of art.

From the years 2001 till 2003, emerged a desire to search for a synthesis between painting and language. A necessity has now grown within to saturate entire surfaces. A certain necessity has evolved to explore, almost like a surgeon, the fragments of life and transport them in a vast way throughout my life. I have felt the necessity to abandon myself towards the instincts of my origins, in search of antique stencils, and the possible equilibrium between nature and reason.

These last three years of searching have brought me back to primordial material (used exclusively in colours and pure oils, flax canvas in large forms). I have tried to find a synthesis between my two apparent operating modalities (instinctual and rational) and finding a common thread between the two amidst their diversity and manifesting a symbiosis that speaks of my essence and my apparent contradictions.

Noted Critics:

Paolo Levi Art critic of monthly Arte - Mondadori;

Antonio Priolo – Editor of monthly RE NUDO;

Roberto Zambelli – Art critic of Centro D' arte e Cultura Torre Strozzi Modena \ Perugia;

Michele Fuoco – Critic of Nuova Gazzetta of Modena;

Gianluigi Lanza – Critic of Stradanove Net (telematic journal) Bologna, Ultime Notizie Modena-Reggio Emilia -Torino-ROMA;

Stefano Gualdi - critic d' arte del Comune of Reggio Emilia (Archivio Giovani Artisti) of weekly Reporter, Temaceleste Arte Contemporanea.

Kit Suttherland - Art critic of the project "Resurrezione”.

Stefania Carrozzini - Gruppo D'ars Milano- Galleria Antonio Battaglia Milano.

Luciano Lepri – Journalist of the Corriere dell' Umbria, Il Messaggero, il Giornale dell' Umbria.

Cecilia Lazzeretti – Journalist of weekly Modena-Modena.

Federica Muzzarelli – Critic of the Commune of Modena - Arteletta - bologna

Paola Colombo – Art Critic of That's Art

Paola Naldi – Daily newspaper Repubblica

Dario Trento – Daily newspaper Repubblica

Anna Spadafora - Spirali Vel edizioni Milano Galleria 2° Rinascimento - Bologna - Milan - Ferrara

Sergio Dalla Val - Spirali Vel edizioni Milano Galleria 2° Rinascimento- Bologna - Milan - Ferrara

Maria Rosaria Belgiovine – Art CriticNew of Art Promotion - MILAN

Giulia Sillato – Art historian - ARTIS RECENSIO - Verona

Fabio Tedeschi - Forvm Artis Museum - Montese (Mo)

Valerio Grimaldi – Art critic of Art Journal.

Marcello Riccioni – Art Critic – Galleria Le Tele Tolte

Giorgio Di Genova – Art Critic – Terzo Occhio – Giornale dell'Arte

Philippe Daverio - Art Critic - RAI 3

Art Work Catalogue:

Artist and art work catalogue of contemporary art curated by PaoloLevi - Mondadori;

La creazione del Segno - Video catalogue - Modena

Flash Art International book - Flash Art edizion - Giancarlo Politi Editore.

Tutti Insieme Spensieratamente 1998 - International Catalogue curated by Giacobbe Spazio - Antonio Battaglia Contemporay Art Milano - Bertrand Kass Innsbruck 1997\'99

Flash Art Diary Italia - Flash Art edizion - Giancarlo Politi Editore

Project Resurrezione villaggio Menotre Scopoli (PG) sponsored by the regione of Umbria and the city of Foligno.

Unicef for Art – Catalogue for children of UNICEF.

BARCELONA ART EXPO 1999

11 Artisti a Confronto – City of Bagnolo in Piano (RE)

International Encyclopedic Dictionary of Contemporary Art 1999/2000 - Alba Edizion - Ferrara

General catalogue of the 2nd Biennial International of Art- City of Florence.

GENT ART EXPO 1999

START 2000 Strasburg, France- International Art Fair.

Holland Art Fair 2000 International Art Fair- Den Haag.

Barcelona ART EXPO 2000 -

New Art 2000 - New Art Promotion Milano

Pavia Giovane Arte Europea – Ed Province of Pavia 2001

Holland Art Fair 2001 International Art Fair- DEN HAAG

ART KARLSRHUE 2004 INTERNATIONALE MESSE FUR MODERN KUNST – GERMANY – MARZO 2004

Holland Art Fair 2004 International Art Fair- Den Haag.

Nascita di un museo – Museum of Contemporary Art of Scopoli (PG) EDIMOND

Stefano Fanara – La presenza della Ragione – Gnaccarini Gallery Edizion 2004

LINEART FLANDERS EXPO – International Art Fair- Gent Belgium December 2004

Dreamers of Colors – Art and Fashion -FERRARA

ARTEXIT – Minerva Edition – Perugia

Officinema- Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna 2004

DREAMERS OF COLORS – ARTE E MODA -FERRARA

ARTEXIT –EDIZIONI MINERVA – PERUGIA

Officinema- Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna 2005

Art Diary Flash art Italia e Art Diary international dal 1998 al 2005

Officinema – Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna 2006-

Viniimmagine 2006 – Cupramontana

Vitarte – Fiera D'arte Contemporanea di Viterbo

Human Being – Galleria Primopiano Living Gallery –

Immagina Film Festival 2006

Le Tele Tolte Catalog 2006

Le Tele Tolte Video Catalog 2006

Vitarte – Fiera D'arte Contemporanea di Viterbo - In-Visibil-Arte 2007

2007 Officinema, Cineteca Press, Bologna

2007 Bac , Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain

2007 – 2008 Arte Moderna , Giorgio Mondatori

2007 Caos , Galleria d'Arte 18, by Valerio Dehò, Bologna

Reviews:

Flash Art italia, Giornale dell'Arte, Arte Mondadori, Archivio, Gazzetta di Modena, Samsara, L' Arena, Il Veronese, Il Messaggero, La Nazione, Il Corriere Dell' Umbria, Il Giornale dell'Umbria, Bell' Italia, ModenaModena, Reporter, La Gazzetta di Reggio, La Voce di Mantova, La Prealpina, Modena Amica, Stradanove News, La Nazione Umbria, RAI 2 tg2, TMC2, RAI3 tg3,Famiglia Cristiana, That's Art, Art Show, Ultime notizie, Il Pais, Re Nudo, E hot guide, Temaceleste Arte Contemporanea, La Repubblica, Il Resto del Carlino,Jornal Art, Le Jornal de’ Art, ADNKRON eventi D’Arte, , Leggo Bologna, Cyty Bologna, Tiscali Arte, Emilia Net Art, Exibart, Bologna & Bologna, Virgilio Arte Italia, l’Unità, La Gazzetta di Carpi, La Voce, Exibart, Il Domani, La Gazzetta di Ferrara, Rai Uno, Italia 7 Gold, Estense .com, Supereva.com, Eventi Parma, Arte, Il Manifesto, Artegiovane, Amici nell’arte, Artisti e Dintorni, Arte in rete, Artesss, Euroartexpo, Artonline, Absolutearts, Messalina, Dimensione Arte, Artmajeur, Whipart, Babele Art, Web artisti, Gheoart, Md Arte,Terzo Occhio, The SAATCHI GALLERY - LONDON - UK

Private Collection:

Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates,U.S.A.

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