Stefano Alaimo is a visual artist born in 1984.
The practice of drawing, which he developed while studying graphic design, has become central to his artistic approach. He mainly creates large-format drawings with India ink and a myriad of details. From a Franco-Italian family, Stefano Alaimo was raised in Madagascar until the age of 15. He draws his inspiration mainly from Malagasy crafts, East End art, Byzantine figuration and baroque European architecture.
The spirit behind Stefano Alaimo’s drawings is an attempt to attain the cold objectivity of scientific illustration. He chooses black and white because it is cold, emotionless. The perpetually frontal point of view and the object’s flat appearance are chosen for the same reason.
His trees recall botanical diagrams; his bodies look like something out of a treatise on anatomy. The artist tries to keep his emotions at a distance. Sheets of paper become screens he can lock away demons behind. They are memories of overwhelming beauty, petrifying horror, or disturbing fantasies.
And yet these attempts always fail: the drawings are crawling, seething, the paper filled to overflowing.
Stefano Alaimo is also interested in digital art (video, interactivity).
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| 06 2012 | Video Installation (projection on sculpture in collaboration with Andreea Talpeanu) Lunettes de Nuit festival, curator : Aurore Bagarry, Paris |
| 06 2013 | Filming, editing et post-production of the teaser for Le Tabernacle by Misha Capnist Le Gauche webzine, Paris |
| 07 2013 | Video artist and filming for The Catcher in the Rye directed by Pauline Beaulieu, Berlin |
| 11-12 2013 | Solo exhibition (drawing) Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris |
| 11 2013 | Collective exhibition (drawing) Salon Mac 2000 (invité), curators : Didier Bourdin et Louis Douce, Paris |
| 05-06 2014 | Collective exhibition (drawing) Biennale of Brie-Comte-Robert, curator : Isabelle Malaquin, Brie-Comte-Robert |
| 07-12 2014 | Résidence artistique 59 Rivoli, Paris |
| 10-11 2014 | Concéption, production et coordination for the Movember project (installation) 59 Rivoli, Paris |
| 02-04 2015 | Solo exhibition with psychology center ORME Orme Center, curator : Maria Antonietta Avanzolini, Rome |
| 02-03 2015 | Solo exhibition, Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris |
| 03-04 2015 | Collective exhibition 6th fair of contemporary art of St Gremain en Laye, St Germain en Laye |
| 04 2015 |
Collective exhibition Point Flottants, 59 Rivoli Gallery, curator par Wen Xiong, Paris |
| 06 2015 | Collective exhibition, Madagasy’Art, curator : D. Hardy dit Suisse Marocain, Galerie 59 Rivoli Paris |
| 07 2016 | Conception, production and coordination of an installation for 59 Rivoli’s 15th birthday Petit Bain Club, Paris |
| 06 2016 | Exposition collective, Madagasy’Art, Galerie 59 Rivoli, Paris |
| 01-02 2017 | Feu de Brousse : exposition collective, Goethe Institut of Antananarivo, curator : Stefano Alaimo, Antananarivo Analakely – La petite forêt, street performance Analakely, Antananarivo |
| 03-04 2017 | Collective exhibition, Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris |
| 06-09 2017 | Collective exhibition Galerie Kai Dikhas, curator : Moritz Pankok Berlin |
| 08-09 2017 | Solo exhibtion, Trouville Cityhall, curator : Dominique Wallard,Trouville-sur-Mer (France) |
| 01-06 2018 |
Order of two big size drawings, Trouville, France |