Foreword

Unnamed élan, reliefless suffering and passion without answers.
We don’t need to name all our emotions.
Art is created by unnamed élan. Reliefless suffering and passion without answers.
It is a surreal reality. It’s there, tangible, visible and livable.
And, at the same time, so elusive, insubstantial, ethereal.
It’s beyond. Beyond words. It’s all you’re enjoying with your senses.
It is everything is there, in your images. It is all it’s already in you, but you still don’t know what it is.

Text by Fabiana Bacci

“Unnamed élan, reliefless suffering and passion without answers—Umberto Stefanelli's Photography Exhibition”will be inaugurated at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art at 3:00pm,on Dec 3rd 2010.Umberto Stefanelli, Italian photographer, developed his artistic skills in New York, where he lived for several years and where he began to express his  creativity, with his very own personal style of photography, re-elaborating his images using innovative techniques. Following on from his experience in the USA, he discovered new horizons in Japan, with its colors and light, which conditioned a further transformation in his photographic art, closely tied to the magical instant developing of Polaroid film.He collaborated to several artistic projects with: POLAROID, LEVI’S STRAUSS, L’OREAL, NOKIA, EPSON, GREY GROUP, YOUNG & RUBICAM, NIPPON TELEVISION, ZOOM MAGAZINE.A selection of his work is included in the Polaroid Collection, in the Brescia National Museum of Photography, in the Lishui Museum of Photography, and in other important public and private collections.