| Stefano Scheda was born in Faenza in 1957
and graduated at Bologna's Academy of Fine Arts in
1980. He lives and works in Bologna. He has been lecturer in decoration at Brera's Academy of Fine Art. He first exhibited in 1972. Histories esemplifies an important group of works realized by Stefano Scheda since 1999, several of them having been carried out in the years 2000 and 2001. A process of selection that lasted almost one year had made possible the articulation of the works in a sequence which offers to the observer transversal approaches and connections between each work. They were realized during the summer months on a beach or in a context of industrial, sometimes futuristic landscapes, building sites not yet dismantled in the outskirts of Bologna: places where Stefano Scheda was wholly free to stage his conception of the nude in the space - a freedom that is not to interpret as a situation of released sexuality or eroticism. Therefore, not what you could so often find in many presentations of the male nude, but the liberty of an integrate, not fragmented corporeity fortuitously inserted in a space. As a matter of fact, Stefano Scheda does devise a systematic-existential theme: for himself, the nude is expression of an identity that has remained unchanged in centuries. Since a long time, this is even the enduring key of the artist’s “histories”, his narrations with figures. There is a dialogue, as a matter of fact, a dialectic between the rules given out by the artist and the spatial interpretations by the models, so to institute a condition of unstable equilibrium and variability imperceptible by the spectator. The human being in the work of Stefano Scheda is "the man", the male body in the space, if you like Leonardo’s "homo in circulo", and simultaneously the mutual dialogue between the bodies is relevant for him. The models have neither biographical nor other links whatsoever. They met often - for the first and last time - in the tableaux vivants staged by Stefano Scheda, besides being unaware of the body language they articulated under Scheda’s direction. He is uninterested in the professional models so often encountered in contemporary photography. In Scheda’s choreography the physiognomical aspect gives totally way to the body in the stage-designing of his suggestive compositions. Lately, Scheda inserts in his works props, such as frames or mirrors to create a refined play of “images in images”. All the rules of behaviour proposed by Scheda are individually interpreted and expressed by the models, and it is precisely this play of cognitions and intuitions, of feeling and reflection that guarantees the quality of Scheda’s works. Peter Weiermair, Histoires, 2001 |
| Stefano Scheda - Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2012 |
Il fuoco della Natura/ The Flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti -Ex Pescheria, Trieste (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2011 |
Save our Skiers 2, LAB 610 XL, Sovramonte (BL) (Italy) |
| Artisti per una cultura resistente, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Ossessione Verde, Galleria De Faveri Arte, Feltre (BL) (Italy) | |
| Identitŕ, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) | |
| Pure Water Vision, Auditorium Conciliazione, Roma (Italy) | |
| Voglio la neve in agosto, Galleria De Faveri Arte, Feltre (BL) (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2010 |
Il giardino di Pianamola. Nature and Art Projects, Bassano Romano (Vt) (Italy) |
| One Minute Tree, Il giardino di Pianamola, Bassano Romano (Vt) (Italy) | |
| S.O.S. Save Our Skiers, De Faveri Arte, Feltre, Belluno (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Still in Motion - The 10th Anniversary, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
2009 |
Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) |
| Queer/Schrag, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea del Ticino, Bellinzona (Switzerland) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2008 |
Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Transit, Tufano Studio 25, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Shapes of Time, Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria (Italy) | |
2007 |
Suoni e visioni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) |
| Frail, Hyunnart studio arte contemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
| Il corpo del reato: la reclusione, CACT Centro Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona (Switzerland) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Sono passato a trovarti ma non c'eri, Il Torchio - Costantini, Milano (Italy) | |
2006 |
Fotosintesi, Different places, Piacenza (Italy) |
| Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno (Italy) | |
| Altre famiglie, Palazzo Cavour, Torino (Italy) | |
2005 |
How to become a star?, Palazzo Squarzi, Vicenza (Italy) |
| Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unterwisheim (Germany) | |
| Talent, Technology, Tolerance, Futurshow, Milano (Italy) | |
| Posizioni attuali dell'arte italiana, Fondazione VAF, Kunsthalle, Goppingen (Germany) | |
| Visioni e Suoni II Edizione, Galleria Roberto Rotta farinelli, Genova (Italy) | |
| Arte in Italia, Museo della Permanente, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Fuoribiennale, Different places, Venezia (Italy) | |
| Fuoribiennale - Fuoridentro, Giardini di Castello, Venezia (Italy) | |
| Bologna Contemporanea, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
2004 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Male Bodies, Borders Gallery, London (UK) | |
| Il nudo nell'arte, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Svestiti usciamo, Idea in fabbrica, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Fuori luogo 9, Pinacoteca Dinamica, Campobasso (Italy) | |
| La caffettiera del masochista, ASA Studio Albanese, Vicenza (Italy) | |
| Querschnitt. Sezione trasversale, Gas Art Gallery, Torino (Italy) | |
| Un solo mare di tanti mari, Ospedale dei Crociati, Molfetta, Bari (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Reality from My Point of View, Palazzo Poggi, Bologna (Italy) | |
2003 |
Gli altri, gas artgallery, Torino (Italy) |
| Corpo sociale, Galleria Pack, Milano (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2002 |
Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) |
| Una Babele postmoderna, Galleria San Ludovico-Palazzo Pigorini, Parma (Italy) | |
| Desire, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2001 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (Germany) | |
| Art&Sport, ex Convento di San Francesco, Salerno (Italy) | |
| L'altra metŕ del cielo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Fotografia italiana, Fiera di Parma, Parma (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
2000 |
L'altra metŕ del cielo, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz (Germany) |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Kunstverein Chemnitzer Kunstutte, Chemnitzer (Germany) | |
| Codici virtuali, Salara, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Kunsthalle Schim, Frankfurt (Germany) | |
| Art Brussels, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Brussels (Belgium) | |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| Still in Motion, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo (Ud) (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| L'altra metŕ del cielo, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg (Austria) | |
1999 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Work in Progress, 20 anni del Gruppo '78, Teatro Miela, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| Landscapes, Galleria Banchi Nuovi, Roma (Italy) | |
| Pulp, Galleria Mares, Pavia (Italy) | |
1998 |
Millenium, Campo delle Fragole, Bologna (Italy) |
| Menů turistico, Salara, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Liberamente, ex Arrigoni, Cesena (Italy) | |
| Translazioni, Biblo, Conegliano Veneto (Italy) | |
| Autosbanda, Galleria Perugi, Padova (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Paris Photo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Paris (France) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
1997 |
Linea della ricerca artistica, Villa delle Rose, Bologna (Italy) |
| Paris Photo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Paris (France) | |
| Critica donna, Castello di Rivara, Torino (Italy) | |
| Especes d'espaces, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| The Love Letter, Margaret Harvey Gallery, London (UK) | |
| Approdi Mediterranei, Palazzo Comunale, Maiori (Italy) | |
| Stefano Scheda - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2012 |
MIA Fair, De Faveri Arte, Milano (Italy) |
| T(R)ATTO, Spazio Menomale, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Sorolla's garden , Maria Livia Brunelli Gallery, Ferrara (Italy) | |
2010 |
Scheda | Venturelli: Village Tour, Piran (Slovenia) |
2009 |
Doppiosguardo, Galleria Il Milione, Milano (Italy) |
2008 |
Oltredimora, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
2007 |
Fuoridentro 5, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) |
| Stefano Scheda - 1:1, Tobe Art Space, Torino (Italy) | |
2006 |
Fuoridentro 4, Galleria dell'artistico, Treviso (Italy) |
| Meteo 2004. The Reality Show of Hallucination, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany) | |
2005 |
Intime visioni, Galleria Joyce & Co., Genova (Italy) |
| Fuoridentro 3, Fuoribiennale, Venezia (Italy) | |
2004 |
Fuoridentro 1, Bazzano, Bologna (Italy) |
| Space Glass, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto (Canada) | |
| Fuoridentro 2, Fuoribiennale, Vicenza (Italy) | |
2003 |
No landing place, BencivArt Gallery, Pesaro (Italy) |
| Dark Room, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) | |
2002 |
Histories, Studio Cristofori, Bologna (Italy) |
2001 |
Siti, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) |
| 8 artisti - 8 critici - 8 stanze, Villa delle Rose, Bologna (Italy) | |
1999 |
Artifici, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
1998 |
Spazi, Galleria Severi Arte, Bologna (Italy) |
1997 |
Corpo a corpo, Galleria Giulia, Roma (Italy) |
1996 |
Doppio passo, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Faenza (Ra) (Italy) |
1995 |
Proiezione, Spazio Depot, Bologna (Italy) |
1994 |
Il contagio, Teatro Miela, Trieste (Italy) |
| Altre pose, Studio Bocchi, Roma (Italy) | |