Francesco de Stefano’s use of fortezzato brings an unexpected element to the work making the overall compositions completely unified, the opposite to collage, a form generally associated with breaking the unity of an image.
Italian artist Francesco de Stefano was born in 1937 in Milan, Italy. He studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela in 1955 and went on to win a scholarship to the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, in Milan, Italy in 1959.
After spending the 60’s in Milan, and working very successfully as a set designer with the leaders of Italian cinema which was at the forefront of both visual and dramatic art in Europe, de Stefano returned to painting.
In the 80’s he moved to Spain and having lost his desire to work in cinema with its increasing dependence on computerization, he found himself most happy when working with his hands. The focus of his work became the feeling of space attained between the attraction and the repulsion of the force of light.
Francesco de Stefano’s use of fortezzato brings an unexpected element to the work making the overall compositions completely unified, the opposite to collage, a form generally associated with breaking the unity of an image. Now in his seventies, de Stefano’s work reflects his training as an architect and his work as a cinema set designer indeed the landscapes have a feeling of being painstakingly constructed or built.
Francesco de Stefano has been exhibiting his works internationally in both Europe and South America and now in Asia.