Stefani
Peter is the owner of AION Art Gallery and a well-exhibited painter, photographer,
sculptor and book maker. She has exhibited extensively in Germany, and her
work has been shown in France, Poland, Russia, England, Brazil and Canada.
Stefani writes:
"Drawing is a philosophy of life. Who once became addicted to drawing
can never forget it again.
In the beginning nothing was more important as to feel life with the pencil.
In thousands of notes and sketches, in the Books-of-the-Days and the innumerable
drawings that were done since 1985, I have built up my repertoire for today's
work."
The main
topic of her work is the human being: mankind as social being and part
of nature. As she puts it, "People exist not only in real "rooms",
but also in rooms of feelings and reminiscences."
Paintings
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Paintings
Stefani has been painting professionally for 20 years
with exhibits in Europe and Canada. Since 1987, she has combined hand-printing
with stencils and stamps, brushwork and drawing. The use of series and
repetition, with slight modifications and an interplay between positive
and negative forms, create
compositions full of tension.
From
the 4th until the 18th of September 1999, Stefani took part in the 5th
International Pleinair of Painting in Kostrzyn (Poland), which
was organized by the art association Sztuka na Granicy. The multitude
of paintings, drawings and prints she produced during this time is similar
to her enormous productivity for numerous other exhibits, events and collaborative
projects. Her mediums include oils, monotype prints, acrylic paint and
wax crayon.
In 1998,
Stefani started to research the phenomenon of "time" in her
work more closely. In her
paintings, she uses the following symbols to express time: the fence,
to represent a point of change, and the wheel, to represent the steady
"on-going" state of time.
After painting a series of ten works on canvas
entitled "Kairos" (2000), Stefani wrote, "I see
the world as a mechanism of gear wheels working together. Each small wheel
of this mechanism has its own significance in the perfect passing of time".
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Drawings and prints
Drawing is Stefani's forte and her artistic lifeline. In every
medium, her gestural line and gift for capturing form and contour is foremost.
She has also worked in the demanding mediums of lithography and silkscreen.
Since 1987, Stefani has explored variations on a unique imprinting technique
which she has self-invented. Working with foam rollers, she cuts stencils
and stamps, then draws into the finished works. During May 2001, she was
the artist-in-residence for Malaspina Printmakers. The resulting monotypes
were exhibited at the Malaspina Gallery in October 2002.
Artist books
Stefani has produced more than 650 artist's books for exhibits in Canada
and Europe since 1989.
In December 1992, she started a project which she called "The Preserved
Days". Each day, she made an original book-of-the-day in the form
of a concertina. She felt it would be an interesting task to force herself
to work steadily over a long period of time. After half a year of steady
work, she stopped for one year, then started again after two months in
Brazil.
In a reflection of Stefani's moods and creative drives, the techniques
and topics of this diary-like work are as different as were each of the
days. The artworks share a common size of 13" x 28", which when
folded create books measuring 13" x 7". They are all stored
in a bookshelf.
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Three-dimensional work
Stefani's three-dimensional
work includes free-standing sculptures made of woven aluminum. The figurative
pieces have been installed in a cargo container, hung from door frames
or on gallery walls.
In 2000, her aluminum
mesh figures were exhibited in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In
an exhibit entitled "Nachtwache" (Nightwatch) in Germany during
July, 2001, brass weavings of figures were installed in church windows.
The
dreams don´t pass
in the morning,
when sleep ends
They vanish
when you stop wanting to fulfil them.
Stefani
Peter, 1999 |
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