Born 1991 in Merate, Italy. Lives and works in Milan.

Stefano Caimi’s research is focused on the natural landscape as a mixture of ecological relationships, natural processes that keep the landscape alive and generate the image we perceive of it. His work emphasises these processes by setting them in a technological, reductionist, scenarios where shape, color and matter highlight their fundamental role within the ecosystem.

“I’ve always been fascinating by the biological complexity I find in nature.
A dense network of hidden and interconnected relations ”

He seeks a tension between detail and context, a complexity that leads audience to a continuous shift of perspective. The artworks, fragments of the contemporary landscape, are the blossoming of an era in which the human-environment relationship is increasingly central. Math, ecology, programming and chemistry are the media used to focus the subject of an artwork in order to inspect the process of its creation. He adopts a transdisciplinary approach encompassing new media, sculpture, photography and installation.

Stefano Caimi’s works and installations have been exhibited at diverse solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Netherlands, China and the United States. His work is held in various public and private collections, including AkzoNobel Art Foundation (NL), Anthropocene Collection of MUSE Museum (IT) and In4Art (NL). He is in residency at Dolomiti Contemporanee (IT) and actively collaborates with the Centre for Studies on Alpine Environment, University of Padua.
Since 2019, he has taught Computer Art at New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His course is focused on how digital media have changed the way to think, make and distribute art in the last century.

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