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    Born in Asola (Mantua) in 1961, Stefano Arienti graduated in Agriculture in Milan. He gained his artistic-cultural training attending Corrado Levi’s lessons at the Polytechnic, in a lively climate of seminars that included artists such as Richard Long, Daniel Buren, and Tony Cragg. His artistic journey began in the Eighties when, among his first works, he presented folded papers that exploited very simple and repetitive means and procedures which recalled everyday dynamics. In the subsequent decade, the artist works often using extra-pictorial materials, using reproductions of pictures by masters of the past or trite supermarket posters, covering them with malleable material such as plasticine or silicone. In the same period, he began to engrave or perforate materials from popular culture. Arienti works are created by setting out from a conceptual gesture executed on an object which is thus taken out of its sphere of use and acquires an aura. In recent years Arienti has begun to create installation works and exhibitions, shifting analysis from the pure objective datum to the environmental dimension. His research proceeds along with guidelines of a relationship with popular tradition, which has always been one of his characteristics, but is completed by a backward glance at his own art and his own technical achievements, questioning himself on the capacity of art in a strict sense to influence culture in a broad sense.

    Stefano Arienti. Fuori registro

    ed. Corraini, Mantova, 2017

    ISBN 978-8875706500

    Arte guarda arte

    Postmediabooks, Milan, 2013

    ISBN 978-8874900992

    L’arte è un romanzo

    Silvana Editoriale, Milano, 2013

    ISBN 978-8836626342

    Quarantanni 1973-2013, Massimo Minini

    a+mbookstore edizioni, Milano, 2013

    ISBN 978-8887071504

    A very light art

    Cà Rezzonico, Venezia, a cura di Veronica Bellei and Camilla Selvane, 2013

    Bookhouse

    Silvana Editoriale, Milano, a cura di Alberto Fiz, 2013

    ISBN 978-8836626441

    Pennellate all’Arte

    Silvana Editoriale, Milano, a cura di Chiara Agnello e Milovan Faronnato, 2012

    ISBN 978-8875703332

    Cantiere del 900

    Skira, Milano, a cura di Francesco Tedeschi, 2012

    ISBN 978-8857217451

    All’Aperto – Stefano Arienti

    Trivero, Biella, a cura di Barbara Casavecchia, ed. Ermenegildo Zegna, Trivero, Biella, IT, 2011

    ISBN 978-8897703006

    La classe non è acqua. Class will Out

    GAMeC, a cura di Giacinto di Pietrantonio, 2011

    -2+3 Stefano Arienti/Massimo Bartolini: la collezione di Museion

    a cura di Letizia Regaglia e Frida Carazzato, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT, 2011

    Italia in opera

    Bollati Boringhieri Torino, 2011

    ISBN 978-8833922065

    Terre Vulnerabili

    Corraini ed. Mantova, a cura di Chiara Bertola e Andrea Lissoni, 2011

    ISBN 978-8875703004

    L’uccello e la piuma. La questione della leggerezza nell’arte italiana

    et al. / edizioni, Milano, 2010

    ISBN 978-8864630250

    Elogio della semplicità

    Silvana Editoriale, Milano, a cura di Giorgio Verzotti, 2010

    ISBN 978-8861190016

    Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando

    Electa Milano, a cura di Francesca Pasini ed Emma Zannella, 2010

    ISBN 978-8837079420

    La scultura italiana del XXI secolo

    Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, 2010

    ISBN 978-8896132074

    Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche

    GAMeC, Bergamo, a cura Giacinto di Pietrantonio e Maria Cristina Rodeschini, 2010

    Associazione Archivio Stefano Arienti E.T.S.

    until

    Le Divisament dou Monde: disegni italiani sull’Estremo Oriente

    Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum, Nanchang, CN
    until 24.09.2026

    Di quadro in quadro. L’arte della citazione

    Mart, Rovereto, IT
    until 01.11.2026

    Creature, Creatori. San Francesco e l’arte contemporanea

    MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
    until 20.09.2026

    Hans Memling. La Crocifissione

    Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini, Milano, IT
    until 17.05.2026

    Coltivazioni erbacee

    Palazzo Marchi, Parma, IT
    until 14.12.2025

    IPERFAMIGLIE

    straperetana, Pereto, Italy
    until 17.08.2025

    Le Divisament dou Monde: disegni italiani sull’Estremo Oriente

    China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
    until 31.07.2025

    Berthe Morisot. Pittrice impressionista. Display di Stefano Arienti

    GAM - Galleria civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino
    until 09.03.2025

    Trame esplorative: un viaggio attraverso l’arazzo

    Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì (FC)
    until 16.03.2025

    Oltre l’Arte Povera

    Parco naturale delle Cinque Terre, Vernazza e Corniglia
    until 31.12.2024

    La contingenza e la materia – il soffio vitale negli oggetti

    Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, Appartamento dei Giganti, Piazzale della Rosa, 1, Sassuolo (Modena)
    until 31.12.2024

    Michetti Prize 2024

    Fondazione Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Chieti
    until 06.10.2024

    ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI

    Milano
    until 21.04.2024

    Pittura italiana oggi

    Triennale Milano
    until 11.02.2024

    SANTE SUBITO E FIORI

    Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti – Via Machiavelli 30 – 20145 Milano
    until 10.01.2024

    in Panorama Monopoli

    Monopoli ancient seaside village, IT
    until 04.09.2022

    in Bocconi Art Gallery 2021

    Via Röntgen 1, Milano, IT
    until

    Carta bianca. Una nuova storia. 49 artisti x 49 copertine

    Museo Gigi Guadagnucci, Massa, IT
    until 29.08.2021