Stefano Armed into art Mataro from Vergato, name of art that comes from his paternal grandfather and the country where he was born. He graduated at the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. After various artistic experiences in Italy and abroad as a performer and artist during a period of life in New York, in 1990, the crucial encounter with the computer.
Thus began a personal search of relationship between photography, He cultivated since the years of studies, and the computer, the middle just appeared on the world stage. Thus was born the Period Digital Chart (1990-1996) and then to Digital Painting (from 1996 until today): the photograph (black and white and digital) like drawing of reality and the computer as a modern palette. A return to the pictorial representation of reality as in the art of the past but through a technical and creative process very contemporary and current.
All limited edition works are made on different media: from the canvas or in resin, from digital fresco plexiglas, from PVC to lightbox.
He has exhibited in prestigious Italian and foreign museums including, among others, for the International Art Biennale in Venice 2011 and the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York 2012. His digital works have become part of important public and private collections.
Parallel artistic activity has gone through and still takes care of the various performing arts with roles as a professional and researcher in different robes of classical dancer and choreographer, actor and theater director, citharist singer and creator of video art, confirming an artist of great versatility.
Thanks to all these features, the artist Mataro from Vergato was able to collaborate with international artists and curators such as: Enrico Baj, Nino Best, Luigi Ontani, Peter Weiermair, Philippe Daverio, Vittorio Sgarbi.
Lives and works in Bologna and Milan.
Exhibitions and Works:
The rooms of the Myth and the Ideal - Book project in collaboration with Graphics dell'Artiere Bologna for LUMA Arles, July 2015
Me Dea – Te Deum - Performance of video art from the Medea of Euripides- designed, direct, interpreted and music, designs and costumes of Mataro from Vergato – June 2015
Remake – Contemporary interpretations of “The girl with the Pearl Earring” Vermeer – Foundation Terruzzi – Villa Regina Margherita – Bordighera( Imperia) 23 May/ 24 June 2014
Wisible White – Foundation Marangoni – Florence – 16 May / 16 June 2014
Remake – Contemporary interpretations of “The girl with the Pearl Earring” Vermeer – Gallery Space Testoni – Bologna 9 February / 5 April 2014
Gods, saints, heroes and martyrs - Casket 30 cards presented by Prof.. Peter Weiermair the Otto Gallery in Bologna - December 2013 – Ed. All Saints Press
Bop Decameron – Per i 700 years since the birth of Giovanni Boccaccio – Curator Marco Bazzini Director of the Museum of Modern Art Pecci – Show Praetorian Palace of Certaldo ( Florence) July 2013
Diaries -Italian Photographers – Leslie Lohman Museum – New York – December – 2012/ February 2013
Ritual for Hamlet - Performance with video installation - Entertainment chosen for the opening of the season of the Teatro Petrella of Longiano - 2 November 2012
Barba Fior – Galleries Maurizio Nobili – Paris – November – 2011/ January 2012
Venice Biennale – Section Emilia Romagna – Sgarbi project – Palazzo Pigorini – Parma – June – 2011
DIGITALFRESCO ROOM PROJECT: La sala dell'Eros e Thanatos – Biennial of Video / photograph of Alexandria – the Citadel – Alexandria – April / July - 2011
Holy Eros – (selection) Onepieceart Gallery – Via Margutta 85 – Roma – March April - 2011
Intimate Travel – Museum of the Excavations Scaligeri – Verona – October – 2010 - Catalog
The Best of – Gianni Testoni space – The 2000+45 – Bologna – July / October – 2010
Sacred Mythology – staff – Sabrina Raffaghello Contemporary Art – Alexandria – December 2009 / March 2010 - Catalog
Matt Dive Gold -On the occasion of the World Swimming Championships – Galleria LipanjePuntin – Roma – July September 2009
Mint – Castello Sforzesco – Milan – November - 2008
Biennial International Antiques – Palazzo Venezia – Roma – October - 2008
I love Art – Myth Gallery – Barcelona – August September - 2008
Photography Biennial – The Citadel – Alexandria – June / September - 2008
Holy Eros – edited by A.M. Martini – Gianni Testoni The space 2000+45 – Bologna – January March 2008 – Catalogue Damiani
Exhibition – Mataro from Vergato – Open Space For Hom Pier – Milan – December 2007
Art and Homosexuality: da von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles – by E. Viola e V. Sgarbi – Royal palace – Florence – October 2007 / January 2008 – Catalog
Art and Homosexuality: da von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles – by E. Viola e V. Sgarbi Palazzo della Ragione – Milan – July 2007 - Catalog
13 x 17 – 1000 ARTISTS FOR ECCENTRIC SURVEY ON ART IN ITALY – curated by Philippe Daverio & Jean Blancheart – Catalogue Rizzoli – 2007 Exhibitions
piston rod – Power – Milan – Naples – Chieti – Palermo – Bologna – Roma – Venice Biennale 2012
Gayperman leaves home – Galeria Food is Food – Madrid – July September 2007
Symbolism heritage. Mythology, ethnography, esoterismi – by R. wheel – Municipal Gallery of Modern Art – hundred (Fe) – March / June 2007 - Catalog
Mataro da Vergato-Digital Painter – staff – Fabbrica Eos Gallery – Milano – 2006
Polytriptych Transgender – Animated works of 1,45 minutes – Published on dvd magazine "NU: naked in French " – 2006
Flowers – collective – Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Pavullo in Frignano (you) – 2005 - Catalog
Bologna Contemporary – collective – Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna – 2005 - Catalog
Mataro da Vergato Digital Painter – monographic album of Digital Painting (ed. limited) Texts: P. Weiemair – J. Turner – Bologna – 2005
Directions / Various – edited by G. Pintori – collective – Bosa Town (Not) – 2004 - Catalog
The dynamics of the Face – collective – Galleries of Modern Art – Pavullo nel Frignano (you) – 2004 Catalog
the Naked: between ideal and reality – to P care. Weiermair – Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna – January / May 2004 – Catalogue Skira
Desire – to P care. Weiermair – collective – Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna – 2002
A Babel Post Modern: reality and allegory in Italian art of the '90s by E. Mauro – collective – Palazzo Pigorini – Parma 2002 - Catalog
Rivola – Garden – Mataro – collective – Galleria V.S.V. – Torino – April May 2000
The Castle of Wonders – itinerant collective – Church by Alvar Aalto – Riola of Vergato – 2000
Youth do not burn – collective – Galleria V.S.V. – Torino – June 1999
D.U.M.B.O. Exhibition – collective – The Brooklyn Loft – New York – October 1998
L’Altra Eva-Virtual Trans – staff – Studio Cristofori – Bologna – June / September 1998 - Catalog
Matarotel – The Phone nell'Arte – collective – Show future – Bologna – May 1998
Indslamdecor – staff – decorators Associates – Bologna – February 1998
collective – Cavalry Hall – Town Hall – Piacenza – October 1997 – Caves of Boldini – Town hall – Ferrara – November 1997 – Castello Gonzaga – Finale Emilia (you) – December 1997 – Tourist Promotion – Rimini – January 1998
Exhibition Visual Arts – collective – Salt warehouses – Cervia – September 1997
Mataro from Vergato and Surroundings – staff – Palazzo dei Capitani – Vergato (will) – June 1997
The Basics of Being – P Lyrics. Vicinelli – VideoArte – Bologna – 1995
Patafisica – EOS Art Gallery – Milano – 1994
Multi-Mataro-Theatre-Picture – SpazioBBC – Bologna – 1994
Erotica ‘93 – Congress Palace – Bologna – 1993
Sketches for poetic memories – VideoArte – Verona – 1990
collective – Accademia Clementina – Bologna 1977
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