Artist Stefano Fanara

Stefano Fanara

About

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

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.

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Education

Stefano Fanara was born in 1963 in Favara in the province of Agrigento.
From a very early age an innate creative force led him to experiment with the potential in different expressive mediums.
Instead of playing with his young peers, he was infused by an irrepressible urge to "meddle" with any surface or support, cutting or drawing with a wide range of tools: nails, pencils, colours, chalk, charcoal or anything else on rigid surfaces or sheets of paper, an unconscious will of self-affirmation.
This formed the basis for his first timid and still insecure pieces of work that did however indicate a precise, harsh style and a marked sensitivity to chromatisms. This characteristic was to accompany the artist's work even in adulthood.
In 1989 he moved to Modena where he began working as a primary school teacher.
"Working" with children was no random choice as they provide him with energy and stimulation with their spontaneity and expressive freedom that has not yet been tainted by the awareness of reality gained in adulthood.
After later moving to Bologna, he gained important experience in theatre, dance and particularly in the Zen disciplines that gave him a new direction and a new philosophy.
His paintings from this period reflect a greater refinement of the sign and colour that still keep their impetuosity. Works that are more reflective and meditated or, rather, a more reflective, meditated attitude that aims to capture imperceptible emotional threads, signs and languages of the inner world.
His current creative process features an apparent dystonic duality:
the search for a pictorial synthesis and language and, at the same time, the thorough saturation of the surface. The necessity to, almost surgically, extrapolate fragments of life in order to then transpose them and dilate them to a wide scope within his own experience; the urgency to abandon himself to his instinctual origins in search of age-old matrixes and possible equilibriums between nature and reason.
These two tendencies converge precisely by being so different from each other and enter into a highly effective symbiosis that speaks of men and his contradictions.
Stefano Fanara lives and works in Bologna. He has a degree in Pedagogy from the Literature and Philosophy faculty and is specialised in Special Pedagogy for teaching disabled children.
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 critics 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 DArte 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.
October 2005, Participated in exhibit called " The colors of Amnesty" with the partecipation of Nobel Prize "Dario Fo".
October 2005 - Participated in exhibit - FACOLTA' DI MAGISTERO -FACOLTA' DI SCIENZE DELLA FORMAZIONE
Alma Mater Studiorum -University of Bologna.
November 2005 Participated in exhibit - ARTE PADOVA
Mostra mercato di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
November 2005 Participated in exhibit - CINETECA DI BOLOGNA OFFICINEMA FESTIVAL PREMIO LUCA DE NIGRIS With the video " I sette peccati capitali".
November 2005 Participated in exhibit - MALPENSA ARTE 2005
Mostra Mercato di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
December 2005 Participated in exhibit called Colors of Venice at the Centro DArte in San Vidal, Italy
March 2006 - Participated in exhibit - Vitarte 2006 FIERA D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA vith
GALLERIA LE TELE TOLTE.
March 2006 - Participated in exhibit - GALLERIA COMUNALE of Cesena - Italy - called " The colors of Amnesty" with the partecipation of Nobel Prize "Dario Fo".
April 2006 - Participated in IMMAGINA VIDEO FESTIVAL - LEINI - TORINO - ITALY
With the video " I sette peccati capitali".
April 2006 - Participated in BIBLIOTECA RUFFILLI - BOLOGNA - ITALY with the films FILMS: IL GIGANTE EGOISTA,I SETTE PECCATI CAPITALI,ITALIANO MEDIO.
April- May 2006 Participated in exhibit called PRIMAVERANDA - COMUNE DI BUDRIO - BOLOGNA - ITALY.
April- May 2006 Participated in exhibit called ARTISTI PER LA PACE - MUSEO DEL DIVENIRE- SCOPOLI DI FOLIGNO - PERUGIA (I).
May - June 2006 Participated in exhibit called HUMAN BEING with the videos " La scatola delle strategie comunicative and Portuguese Breath - GALLERIA PRIMOPIANO LIVING GALLERY - LECCE- ITALY.
June July 2006 Participated in exhibit called "ARCHETIPI DELLA MEMORIA" - GALLERIA LE TELE TOLTE - CALCATA (VT) -ITALY.
July - August 2006 Participated in exhibit called "VINIIMMAGINE 2006" COMUNE DI CUPRAMONTANA - ANCONA - ITALY.
JULY 21 TO AUGUST 10 - 2006 Participated in exhibit in AGORA GALLERY - NEW YORK - U.S.A

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Future Shows: GALERIE SIKORONJA - ROSEGG - AUSTRIA.
WORLD MUSEUM - CESANO MADERNO - MILANO - ITALY.
GALLLERIA 18 - BOLOGNA - ITALY.
CENTRO D'ARTE TORRE STROZZI - PARLESCA (PG) ITALY.
GALLERIA ALPHACENTAURI - PARMA - ITALY.
GALLERIA SEKANINA - FERRARA - ITALY.
GALLERIA SPAZIONOVE - FAENZA (RA) - ITALY.
GALLERIA LE TELE TOLTE - CALCATA (VT) -ITALY

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