TV; 170x112cm; olio su tela; 2012

"Stefano Bullo’s paintings draw from the images that submerge our everyday life. He collects media events, as if he were obsessed by the determination to fix a historic instant and convert a quick second into eternity. Celebrities – as well as almost famous people, all pertaining to our ima-­R08; gination through the media world are portrayed in his works, and so are sketches drawn from newspapers or the Internet depicting current events. He often paints images we would like to forget or that we know only from second hand information, such as scenes of urban guerrillas or illegal immigration, giving sound reasons for our lack of first-­R08;hand knowledge. The choice of such themes leads the young painter to illustrate two types of subjects, both well established in Western tradition, the portrait and the landscape. As a matter of fact, they prove to be an archetypical key to an in depth insight on people and places, as well as on compositional techniques used to describe our surrounding reality. Thus the language of media ima gery flares up powerfully and prompts us to think about erstwhile issues on posing in photography. As a result, Bullo’s portraits become a psychological rendering of the typical human values of contemporary society, throu which we usually typify, classify and assess our everyday environment. In Stefano Bullo’s paintings, though, these facts do not force themselves on the viewer, but allude gently, setting up an objective identification process. "
Diego Mantoan