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Stefano Scheda, a teacher responsible for “Strategies of invention” course at the Academy of Arts in Bologna, has created a performance around the dressing of a model with three coloured pastry, evoking the Italian flag. These then slowly collapse leaving the model naked: a metaphor to
represent the loss of identity and an invitation to re-establish it.

hiroyuki masuyama and stefano scheda

Stefano Scheda is born in Faenza in 1957. He now lives in Bologna and teaches “strategy of invention” at the Fine Arts Academy. In his works, he has always tried to capture the short-circuit of reality without altering the objective aspects, while leaving space for different perceptions of gaze as well. For this reason, his series: “inside out” or “double gaze” are to examine the threshold as a two-faced contemporary of a gaze. The presence of the sea is consistent in many of his works. His most recent work is realized through a dynamic ductility that speculates over the perception of reality and its possible translation, where the viewer faces difficulties to distinguish between illusion and reality, as in the series of buildings where the doors and windows were replaced with mirrors, creating a sense of alienation in the spectator.
He took part in the several international exhibitions, including Mart di Rovereto (2011), la Biennale di Venezia (2005), GAM di Bologna (2004) and Annina Nosei Gallery in New York (2003). Among many others, Peter Weiermair, Peter Weibel, Jonathan Turner, Emmanuel Cooper, Laura Cherubini, Claudio Marra, Luigi Meneghelli, Roberto Daolio, Ludovico Pratesi, Eugenio Viola, Valerio Dehò, Angela Madesani, Cristiano Seganfreddo, Sabrina Zannier, Daniele Capra and Martina Cavallarin wrote about him.