Stefano Monteleone is a visual artist and architect who investigates the mechanisms of power, institutional dynamics, and the ambiguities of political representation through a pared-down and conceptual pictorial language. His research focuses on repetition, chromatic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning, questioning the stability of structures and the rhetoric of surfaces. Through architectural images and serial devices, his work offers a critical reflection on the apparent transformations and invisible permanences of contemporary life. He lives and works in Palermo.
Project Statement
The work Color Correction explores the chameleon-like nature of power through the serial repetition of an institutional structure, which remains identical in form but shifts in color. The color variations evoke plurality and change, but also stark contrasts between different ideological positions, while maintaining the structure and the machinery that houses them unchanged. This chromatic tension suggests how certain mechanisms operate only hypocritically and opportunistically. Behind declared affiliations often lies a common self-interest and a transformative interest in maintaining personal power, riding the wave of popular conflicts. While ideologies outside change, power remains static.
