Stefano Pasquini

Stefano W. Pasquini
Stefano W. Pasquini (2014)
Born	December 23, 1969 (1969-12-23) (age 47) Bologna, Italy
Occupation	Italian artist

Stefano W. Pasquini is an Italian contemporary artist, writer and curator living in Italy.
He works with paintings, performance, photography and installation. He also publishes a magazine called Obsolete Shit.

He currently works with the Italian galleries Enrico Astuni,Bologna, L'Arte,Molinella, Quattrocentometriquadri,Ancona, and MelePereVerona. Since 2010 he has been known as Stefano W. Pasquini.

His style has been defined "horizontal", as it's hard to define practicing in so many different styles. To quote Fabio Cavallucci: "Pasquini doesn’t worry about changing styles and contents: he goes from interactive performances – like when, for example, he dressed like Spider-Man, sitting on the floor of the streets of London – to the hard rock videos – like the one he’s in the woods stuck with his hands and feet onto the ground, shouting like a maniac. He’s also not afraid to return to paintings, portraying, with a fast and synthetic stroke, himself or people from the mass media zoo. Or eschews the indifference in order to approach politics, making works that range from portraying the statesman Aldo Moro in sculpture, as he was found (dead) in the trunk of a Renault in via Caetani, to a performance where a series of people raise on pedestals and wave their hands in the fascist salute."

Pasquini was born in Bologna, Italy. He received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 1991, then immediately left his country for Dublin, briefly, then London for seven years, and New York, where he participated to many exhibitions. He is currently based in Bologna, where he works. He was head curator of Sesto Senso, a small non-profit gallery in Bologna, for the exhibiting seasons of 2001–2002. He was Art Director of "Work – Art in progress", magazine of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Trento, as well as contributing editor of NYArts Magazine.
In 2014 he directed the non-profit art space Studio Cloud 4 curating many exhibitions until 2016. Since 2013 he teaches Tecniche Grafiche Speciali at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin.