| 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 | |
2010 |
Still in Motion - The 10th Anniversary, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy) |
| 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 artecontemporaneai, Bologna (Italy) | |
2009 |
Queer/Schrag, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea del Ticino, Bellinzona (Switzerland) |
| Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2008 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Transit, Tufano Studio 25, Milano (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) | |
| Shapes of Time, Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
2007 |
MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) |
| Sono passato a trovarti ma non c'eri, Il Torchio - Costantini, Milano (Italy) | |
| Frail, Hyunnart studio arte contemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
| Il corpo del reato: la reclusione, CACT Centro Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona (Switzerland) | |
| Suoni e visioni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2006 |
Fotosintesi, Different places, Piacenza (Italy) |
| Altre famiglie, Palazzo Cavour, Torino (Italy) | |
| Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno (Italy) | |
2005 |
Arte in Italia, Museo della Permanente, Milano (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Fuoribiennale, Different places, Venezia (Italy) | |
| 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) | |
| Bologna Contemporanea, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unterwisheim (Germany) | |
| How to become a star?, Palazzo Squarzi, Vicenza (Italy) | |
| Fuoribiennale - Fuoridentro, Giardini di Castello, Venezia (Italy) | |
2004 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (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) | |
| La caffettiera del masochista, ASA Studio Albanese, Vicenza (Italy) | |
| Il nudo nell'arte, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Fuori luogo 9, Pinacoteca Dinamica, Campobasso (Italy) | |
| Reality from My Point of View, Palazzo Poggi, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Male Bodies, Borders Gallery, London (UK) | |
| Svestiti usciamo, Idea in fabbrica, Bologna (Italy) | |
2003 |
Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) |
| Corpo sociale, Galleria Pack, Milano (Italy) | |
| Gli altri, gas artgallery, Torino (Italy) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2002 |
MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Una Babele postmoderna, Galleria San Ludovico-Palazzo Pigorini, Parma (Italy) | |
| Desire, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
2001 |
Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) |
| Art&Sport, ex Convento di San Francesco, Salerno (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Fotografia italiana, Fiera di Parma, Parma (Italy) | |
| L'altra metŕ del cielo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (Germany) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
2000 |
Kunstverein Chemnitzer Kunstutte, Chemnitzer (Germany) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Codici virtuali, Salara, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid (Spain) | |
| L'altra metŕ del cielo, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz (Germany) | |
| L'altra metŕ del cielo, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg (Austria) | |
| Still in Motion, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo (Ud) (Italy) | |
| Kunsthalle Schim, Frankfurt (Germany) | |
| Art Brussels, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Brussels (Belgium) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino (Italy) | |
1999 |
Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) |
| Work in Progress, 20 anni del Gruppo '78, Teatro Miela, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Pulp, Galleria Mares, Pavia (Italy) | |
| Landscapes, Galleria Banchi Nuovi, Roma (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
1998 |
Autosbanda, Galleria Perugi, Padova (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Liberamente, ex Arrigoni, Cesena (Italy) | |
| Menů turistico, Salara, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Millenium, Campo delle Fragole, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Köln (Germany) | |
| Paris Photo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Paris (France) | |
| Translazioni, Biblo, Conegliano Veneto (Italy) | |
1997 |
Approdi Mediterranei, Palazzo Comunale, Maiori (Italy) |
| Critica donna, Castello di Rivara, Torino (Italy) | |
| Paris Photo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Paris (France) | |
| Especes d'espaces, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Linea della ricerca artistica, Villa delle Rose, Bologna (Italy) | |
| The Love Letter, Margaret Harvey Gallery, London (UK) | |
| Stefano Scheda - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2010 |
Scheda | Venturelli: Village Tour, Piran (Slovenia) |
2009 |
Doppiosguardo, Galleria Il Milione, Milano (Italy) |
2008 |
Oltredimora, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
2007 |
Stefano Scheda - 1:1, Tobe Art Space, Torino (Italy) |
| Fuoridentro 5, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) | |
2006 |
Meteo 2004. The Reality Show of Hallucination, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany) |
| Fuoridentro 4, Galleria dell'artistico, Treviso (Italy) | |
2005 |
Intime visioni, Galleria Joyce & Co., Genova (Italy) |
| Fuoridentro 3, Fuoribiennale, Venezia (Italy) | |
2004 |
Space Glass, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto (Canada) |
| Fuoridentro 2, Fuoribiennale, Vicenza (Italy) | |
| Fuoridentro 1, Bazzano, Bologna (Italy) | |
2003 |
Dark Room, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma (Italy) |
| No landing place, BencivArt Gallery, Pesaro (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 |
Altre pose, Studio Bocchi, Roma (Italy) |
| Il contagio, Teatro Miela, Trieste (Italy) | |