Stefano Panichi

My work explores two juxtaposed features of human nature:

FLESH
I paint only human flesh, “Belief in Flesh” inspired by Artaud’s thought as a combination of fibres, fluids, energies. This is a
concrete device, a tangle, an array of lines, which intertwine
continuing others or creating new ones through variations
and mutations. Belief in Flesh, is to believe in the body as an
immanent condition that witnesses life. It’s the first impulse, which isn’t in the hands of man (Cervantes). It is necessary to believe not in another world, but in the bond between man and the world, in love and life. To believe in it as in the impossible, in
the unthinkable, which, nevertheless, can only be thought. The inability to think isn’t mere inferiority: it belongs to thought; to the way it is formulated, without expecting to restore an
almighty thought. Rather, it is necessary to use this inability to find the identity between thought and life, to connect man to what he sees and feels.

Hence the second part of the work.

FLUX
It’s a never-ending transformation, what’s new, what’s recent. What’s recent isn’t what we are, but instead what we no longer are, what we are becoming, our becoming something else.

Graduated in Architecture

Solo Exhibitions

- 1993  Stefano Panichi. Citibank, Milan (November 17 - December 14)
- 1995  Stefano Panichi. Studio Zappalà, Milan (March - April)

He stopped to paint for 19 years until 2014 then he started to paint again.

- 2017  Stefano Panichi: Flesh and Flux. Headquarter Gallery, Milan (september 28 - october 28)

Next exhibitions:

Group Exhibitions:

- 2018  Know your thug: tony puryear’s “gankstas!,” a series of political portraits skewering the trump administration,
to debut as  pop-up exhibition at Jason Vass Gallery Los Angeles (January 6–7)

- 2018  Black. The Loft at Liz's Gallery, Los Angeles (february 10 - march 27)