Restlessness and sweetness. The
noise of the city and the silence of remembrance. Desert and sea. A
double essence characterizes the work of Stefano Invernizzi,
self-made painter who moves between hyper-realism and surrealism,
inspiration and technique. His paintings reflect the double nature of
the Man, his beauty and decline, suffering and redemption, reality
and madness.
Born in 1983 and grown up in a
small town, he soon begins to feel tight in an ordinary provincial
life and in a school that does not allow him to cultivate his
passions. So, after completing his studies, not yet of age, he
decides to devote himself completely to music and work to realize his
dream: perform on the most important stages of Italy.
He invests the money he earned
in this direction. He writes, plays, composes and, with his band, Le
Moire, gets to release three albums, the last of which receives
critical acclaim and opens the doors of several indie rock clubs.
Music, however, is not the only
art that accompanies him: painting and sculpture thrill him just as
much. From 2010 to 2012 he attends the Academy of Fine Arts in
Vercelli and exhibits his first paintings.
Then, in 2016, he decides to
throw himself into painting which, year after year, more and more
forcefully, demand for its own space.
To Stefano, creating is a
narrative need, which arises from the necessity to free thoughts and
decipher life. It is an island that protects from the deafening
noises of the world.
Art and life come together in
his paintings. His thoughts are reflected in the canvases and there
we find many of the things that most characterize him: the passion
for music and photography, his friends and the work in the nautical
world.
It is no coincidence that the
sea often returns. Sometimes a symbol of freedom, other times of
danger, a tide that traps or a wave that pushes. For this is the
great lesson he learned working alongside sailors who cross the
oceans: a ship constantly implies the possibility of a shipwreck, as
the sea the danger of sinking. But risk is the price of freedom.
Every single work is the
immovable representation of a narration and encloses a personal
story.
The journey we are led through
takes place in an unmovable time: the time of our globalized,
synchronized world, victim of a merciless daily obligation. A time
which is ruled by objects, determined by the present as a product.
The white colour, which
characterizes the background of the White Space series, evokes a
space which lost its references, a social field where the self is
without a space and the space is without a self. A generalized local
space, a non-place, where the subject retires himself, weakens,
becomes the object of the scene.
His painting is made of
contrasts, able to awake the spirit, leading it to a reflection. In a
world increasingly uniformed, Stefano chooses to suspend normality,
to transfigure reality, becoming anachronistic and going beyond
space.
Subjects
and objects, decontextualized, emerge from the logical schemes,
refuse the common laws of perception and intrude into dreams. Stolen
from everyday-life, men and objects acquire a supernatural force, a
capacity for deviation which is typical of thoughts.
We are in front of a painter of
ideas, of visible thoughts. His poetry gets inspiration from the
arts, from literature and from the observation of daily-living. His
style is figurative as well as subversive and symbolic.
It’s the victory of poetry on
technique, of thought on dogmatism, of the invisible on the visible.
