Butera

Stefano Butera was born in Varese in 1949.

Since 1971 he has been a one-man show at the "Internazionale" Art Gallery in Varese. In 1972, in Geneva, his enormous canvases aroused the admiration of the French critic Renè Terrier who dedicated a flattering article to him. His compositions immediatlely appear tied to a strong humanistic feeling, they impose in a tragic modelling of metaphisical adventures, faces without names, chiselled, eloquent.
He had been followed by people both in and out of Italy until 1987, the year he began his most demanding work, a series of large Frescos inspired by the Encyclical "Redemptor Hominis" a work commissioned by the St. Grato church of Varese. In that work, which takes him two years to finish, Butera reaches a formal syntesis celebrating the imprint of poetry, under the care of an authentic religious feeling. He then began the series of "Italian Landscapes" which he is working on even now.
In 1989, he was invited by the city of Varese to partecipate in an itinerant exhibition which left from the Museum of Villa Mirabello and proceeded to Moscow, Kijev and Tblisi.
He has illustrated two books for the Dall'Oglio publishing company.

In 1994, his Works were shown in the prestigious Fondazione Dominion of Montreal and the Galleria Borkas in Lima.