“Violent Dances Fade” (Libertarian Poetical Fragments) is the visual art and poetry project of Stefano Losi. Developed between Milan, London, and New York since the early 1990s, it combines on large size linen or jute dramatic studies of the human figure and intense original poetry.  The natural earthy colors are a result of a chromatic research that merges acrylic media, sands and oxidized metal minerals as iron, copper, bronze, or titanium, and pure gold.

The works reflect the fine art education received since early childhood at the classical painting practice of his grandfather in Lake Como, near Milan.  After having received his graduate degree at the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan in 1993, Stefano Losi worked in senior management roles in different International Institutions, and in 2005 was nominated Knight of the Italian Republic by President Ciampi.  His art has already been honored with two solo exhibitions at the United Nations in New York.

Stefano Losi grew up living and breathing classical art and literature.  The Mediterranean culture still emerges as a reference in his visual works, yet with a clear contemporary sensitivity.  The poetry, bringing back to life the classical lyric and then neoteric Greek and Latin schools, intends  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.

Collectors, art critics and the press are welcome to view the works in the Author's Studio on 23rd street in Chelsea, New York, by appointment at Editor@ViolentDancesFade.com

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Upcoming events

Wednesday May 2, 2012 - 6.30pm

Solo Exhibition - Taj, New York

48 West 21st Street New York, NY 10010

Recent events

November 2011

Solo Exhibition - Dacia Gallery, New York

March 2011

Solo Exhibition - United Nations, New York

in collaboration with                                           Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York

 June 2011

Solo Exhibition - Taj, New York

Selected reviews

“Timeless. On the contrary, inside time. And beyond. It rains this light rain of words. Significant. Blunt. Stirring, most of all.  |  And then the images, evoked, drawn, painted. Strokes and shadows. Black. Intensity, liberty. And love. Thank you Stefano.”

Marco Mathieu, Writer and Journalist              La Repubblica, Milan

"This is a “splendid union”.  Poetry as universal value that is born from the heart of an Organisation that, in itself, is global: the United Nations...  In the words of these poems there is the same hope I cherish when I observe the world in my trips and my meetings. Stefano has revisited with mastery antique poetic rhythms in a contemporary perspective. Words that describe universal feelings as love, hate, passion, sorrow in a context of hope that brings us together."

Antonio Maria Costa
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

“The most impressive [work] I have picked up in the past couple years... Such a scholarly writer, I would say even the next Thoreauian. Mr. Stefano Losi, thank you very much.”

Steve Aoki | Heartattack, Goleta - California

Preface

existence seems to fade away according to a dialectic evolution proceeding through contradiction

an intimately imperfect process conditioned by the transitoriness of time

by the tension to dissolution

the corruption of experience

the creative necessity allows to generate an expressive possibility that can find integrity within itself

the project intends to foreground different interpretative perspectives

as an attempt to frame the terms of social debate

and the admission of the adoption of ethical assumptions becomes unavoidable

if the faced themes are liberty

and love

essential constitutive personal element            but formidable tension in a political dimension

the imperfect dialectics of experience           liberty, love, tension to dissolution