For
immediate release
Contact:
Nicholas Lacloos, Public Relations, âViolent Dances Fadeâ
âArid
Rainâ Second Solo Exhibition of Stefano Losi, Painter and Poet, at Dacia
Gallery in New York, May 12-31 â Opening Reception Thursday, May 16, 6pm
Dacia Gallery is pleased to present âArid
Rainâ, the second solo
exhibition of works by Italian artist and poet Stefano Losi. The authorâs art project, developed between
Milan, London, and New York since the early 1990's, uniquely combines on linen an
epigrammatic poetry in Latin and English and dramatic studies of the human
figure in acrylic media, sands and oxidized metal minerals as iron, copper,
bronze, titanium, and gold.
The main theme of the exhibition, the desperate
existential unquietness inherent in the human condition, is captured by âArid Rainâ, a
new poetry volume that collects the authorâs work of the last two of years,
introduced by a foreword of the renowned historian and art critic Renato
Miracco. The book will be presented at
the opening reception of May 16th.
Biography
Stefano Losi was born in 1969 in Lake Como,
near Milan, where he was raised and classically educated in fine arts. After having received his graduate degree at
the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan in 1993, he has been senior manager in
different International Institutions, and he is currently first officer at the
United Nations in New York, where he is also President of the UNSRC Literary
Cultural Circle. In 2005 he was
nominated Knight of the Italian Republic by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
âViolent Dances Fadeâ (Libertarian Poetical
Fragments) is a personal art and poetry project created in Milan in 1991, and
further developed in London and New York, that combines on linen studies of the
human figure in acrylics, oxidized metal minerals and intense original
poetry. Following a long series of
events organized since the early 1990s in Europe, including several shows and
poetry readings in formal and alternative spaces, ranging from galleries, to
workers unions and social centers, his art has been honored with two solo
exhibitions at the United Nations in New York.
Antonio Maria Costa, UN Under-Secretary-General, wrote: âThis is a âsplendid unionâ⦠In the words of
these poems I find the same hope I cherish when I observe the World.â
Four books collecting his visual art and
epigrams, providing an overview of the authorâs artistic work in the respective
creative periods, were published in 1996, 2001, 2010 and 2013. Stefano Losiâs work has been featured in
different international publications, among which a book on Italian
contemporary artists curated by Renato Miracco, and published under the
auspices of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author continues to create visual art and
poetry in Chelsea, New York.
Statement
The
study of classical art and literature has always been an integral part of my
life.
The Mediterranean culture still emerges as a reference in my
visual works, yet with a clear contemporary sensitivity. Journalist and writer Marco Mathieu captured its essence as âTimeless. On the contrary,
inside time. And beyond⦠Significant. Blunt. Stirring, most of all⦠Strokes and
shadows. Black. Intensity, liberty. And love.â The poetry, regenerating
the classical lyric and then neoteric Greek and Latin schools, intends indeed to
foreground different interpretative perspectives as an attempt to frame the
terms of contemporary social debate, facing crucial themes as liberty and
love,
essential constitutive personal element, but formidable tension in
a political dimension. The main themes
of the exhibition are embodied by the poem with the same title, âArid rainâ:
I am generated
by restlessness
The uninterrupted
movement of the seas of Methymna
Tormented
By a continuous
thirst
Powered by a rain
of ash and copper
The insistent
caress
Of a most terse
sand
Projects
In opaque
light
My features
of burned soil
The thin
hands smoothed by
the sun
Amongst the
wind
Virginal trembling
I approach my
lips to yours
Livid
Wet of
salt
Slowly
You bring to
you my body
Now stripped
of shadow
Finally free
As a
god
After death I sit
behind your eyes of ash
Event Details:
May 12 - 31
Dacia Gallery - 53 Stanton St. - New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 16, 6-9pm
For further event details please visit Dacia Gallery in New York:
Or the authorâs website:
The author would also welcome the
opportunity of an interview to discuss his visual art and poetry and his recent
book âArid Rainâ, that includes a foreword by international curator Renato
Miracco.
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