BIO
Master's degree in Communication from the University of Perugia. Sensitive to figurative arts and visual languages since he was a teenager, the artist Stefano Divizia dedicated himself to illustration, drawing and painting. The continuous stylistic research, the contaminations of Street Culture and the adherence to the Hip Hop phenomenon that lived in the same years contribute to his formation. Thanks to them he developed a refined sensitivity for Lettering and its graphic elaborations of which he would be the spokesperson during his adolescence. For his quality and stylistic qualities he immediately stood out in the graffiti context in which he was at the forefront, permeating a first physical urban relationship with the city. This spontaneously leads him to approach specific areas of graphics, favoring the creative aspects and ratio. In 2007 he came into contact with Lia Rumma, a historic, world-famous gallery owner who he would accompany for four years as a Personal Assistant, contributing to the inauguration of the new exhibition space in Milan and it was a fundamental experience: direct contact with important works, people and artists. international will in fact be of great importance in artistic training, in the development of his own poetics, still evolving which will bring him among the finalist artists of the “Combat Prize” section. Painting (Livorno, Italy, 2011). The tragic seismic event that occurred in L'Aquila, his hometown, forced him to return to the city in 2011 where he works as a visual artist and brand designer. Active in the artistic and cultural sector, he develops many territorial projects aimed at the promotion and immaterial reconstruction of L'Aquila and the Crater. This formation is still visible today: indelible signs can also be seen in his works which, distant from traditional pictorial schemes, reveal, through a very particular technique, the ordinary as an exceptional moment, giving the image a unique and extraordinary vision of a fabric urban apparently invisible but under everyone's eyes. His works arise from an experience of crossing the city, from a careful exercise of the gaze on urban culture: from a desire to report what the city itself expresses through its walls and the social tensions that permeate it, reading and interpreting the themselves as if they were books. The subject within the work takes on a marginal, invisible aspect and the focus is directed, through detailed material realism, to the particular as an extraction and synthesis of a broader plot, which is therefore literally uprooted from its context and inserted into the exhibition space. Attention is shifted from a purely visual, material level to a deeper, psychological point of view, an introspective level aimed at delving into one's own self and one's identification with emotions, impulses, truths or dramas that the City passes through along the way of urbanization.
PORTFOLIO
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1jKHTbXJtRb1nl3J7DBuWVcfgAJac1Z/view?usp=sharing
AWARDS, EXHIBITHIONS, SITE SPECIFIC
Love letters, Group exhibition, Spazio 16 Civico, Pescara - Italy, June 2023
Nothing special, Group exhibition, Fontecchio International Airport Fontecchio - Italy, March 2022
Klandestina, Group exhibition, Reacto Aps, L’Aquila - Italy, December 2021
Untitled, Site specific, Campo Imperatore Hostel L’Aquila - Italy, December 2021
Fontecchio Now, Group exhibition, Private auction, Fontecchio International Airport Fontecchio - Italy, July 2021
Re-Acto Festival, Site specific installation, Reacto Aps, L’Aquila - Italy, September 2021
Contact (less) Festival, Performance, Hynverno Lab, MAXXI L’Aquila, ABAQ - Italy, Sept 2021
Nothing special, Group exhibition, Fontecchio International Airport Fontecchio - Italy, October 2020
Noccioline, Group exhibition, Yellow art space, Private space Tortoreto - Italy, August 2020
Epidermica, Solo exhibition, Varco Labile Contemporary Art L’Aquila - Italy, August 2020
Semi, Group exhibition, Varco Labile Contemporary Art L’Aquila - Italy, November 2019
Specchio riflesso, Group exhibition, Varco Labile Contemporary Art L’Aquila, October 2019
Street Art Village, Site Specific, UnivAQ - Faculty of Human Sciences L’Aquila - Italy, September 2019
Ex Unicredit Casa Museum, Group exhibition, temporary space L’Aquila - Italy, July 2017
Casa non casa - kesänäyttely, Group exhibition, Toinilan Taidepolku Gallery Petajavesi - Finland, July 2017
Too much Walls, Solo exhibition, Pop up Gallery, L’Aquila - Italy, April 2017
Voorbode 06, Solo exhibition, Nvmen Gallery Rome - Italy, April 2017
Metamorphosis - Beyond the shape, Group exhibition, Rotonda di San Francesco Sulmona - Italy, January 2017
Sketchz: 20 years of Graffiti in L’Aquila, Curator, Group exhibition, Asilo Occupato, L’Aquila - Italy, December 2016
In-augur-azione PORTAFORTUNA, Group exhibition, Varco Gallery, L’Aquila - Italy, January 2016
Exagon, Group exhibition, Asilo Occupato, L’Aquila - Italy, December 2015
Re-Place: La città si illumina di nuovo Site Specific, Art Call winner, Mu6 d’Abruzzo Art Mag, L’Aquila - Italy, Sept 2015
(Con) fusioni, Group exhibition, Diocletian of Lanciano Lanciano - Italy, July 2015
Happening of the Arts, Group exhibition, Pratola Peligna - Italy, August 2014
L’Orto dell’Arte, Site specific, Group exhibition, Ortucchio Castle (AZ) - Italy, July 2014
Cena d’artista, Performance, Group exhibition, Palazzetto dei Nobili, L’Aquila - Italy, August 2013
Aquilani Digitali, Photographic project, Oliviero Toscani and Nuvola Verde L’Aquila - Italy, July 2013
Cena d’artista, Performance and Group exhibition, Private space, L’Aquila - Italy, December 2012
Walls, Solo exhibition, Private space, L’Aquila - Italy, July 2012
Spirits Market, Group exhibition L’Aquila - Italy, May 2011
Combat Prize, Finalist Artist, sect. Painting Livorno, Italy - May 2011
EDUCATION
Snowboard Instructor,
Master, Regione Abruzzo, Italy, April 2024
UX - UI Design
Master, Padova, Italy, July 2023
City as a Culture
Workshop, MAXXI L’Aquila - Italy, July 2021
Museum Booster
Hackathon, MAXXI L’Aquila - Italy, October 2019
Digital People in L’Aquila
Photographic workshop, Oliviero Toscani, Nuvola Verde L’Aquila - Italy, July 2013
Lia Rumma Gallery
Personal Assistant, Milan - Italy, 2007 - 2010
Master’s Degree
Communication Sciences, UniPG Perugia, June 2006
CONTACTS
phone/Whatsapp: IT +39 3934315416
mail: stedivizia@gmail.com
instagram: tezuo25
website: www.stefanodivizia.com
