Tino Stefanoni was born in Lecco in 1937, and attended the Beato Angelico High School for the Arts, as well as Milan's Polytechnic University, where he studied architecture. He has been an active presence on the international art scene for more than thirty-five years.

While not belonging in any strict sense to the field of conceptual art, the work of Tino Stefanoni has always been rooted in similar areas of research.

Stefanoni has always turned his attention to the things and objects of everyday life, and he shows them to us as perfectly obvious no less than as thoroughly disarming. We might be perusing a visual primer that teaches the ABCs, or regarding the pages of an instruction booklet where images substitute for words. Th...