Stefano
Divizia

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.