IMBER ARIDVS

Meet the Artist at Opening Reception

Stefano Losi is an Italian sculptor, poet, and multimedia artist based in New York.  Born on Lake Como and formed between Italy, London, and New York, his work moves through bronze, steel, stone, glass, poetry, and sound in an exploration of the human figure and its fragility.  For more than thirty years, he has developed Violent Dances Fade, an ongoing body of work in which sculpture and language emerge as parallel forms of the same artistic language.  Rooted in classical Mediterranean memory yet deeply contemporary in tension and atmosphere, his work navigates erosion, desire, restlessness, and permanence.  Losi’s work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States and collected in multiple volumes of art and poetry. He lives and works in New York City.

IMBER ARIDVS is rooted in restlessness: the continuous tension between the fragility of the body and the search for permanence.  The sculptures move between classical presence and fragmentation. Bronze, steel, glass, and onyx are treated not as decorative materials, but as carriers of time, tension, and human presence.  Much of the work was developed between New York and Pietrasanta in Tuscany, where the physical labor of sculpture remains inseparable from thought itself.  The exhibition takes its title from a recurring image within the larger poetic cycle behind the work: an “arid rain” of ash, copper, and salt, evoking thirst, erosion, movement, and transfiguration.  At the center of the work is the attempt to move through fragility and desire toward something enduring: a human presence slowly stripped of shadow and returned to permanence.  Alongside the sculptures, the exhibition also introduces the first pieces from Stefano Losi Atelier, a sculptural jewelry project developed directly from the same sculptural language and relationship to the human body.