Stefano Solimani was born in 1953, his father was a pharmacist and his mother a teacher. From childhood he demonstrated an obvious artistic talent that led him, at the age of fourteen, in 1967, to his first solo exhibition at the Hotel City Gallery in Senigallia.
He paints still lifes and landscapes inspired by the great Morandi, Sironi, De Chirico, Lilloni, and Dalì. In 1978, he graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna. In 1977 and 1981, invited to the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, he exhibited at Palazzo Pila and Palazzo Ancajani.
In 2001 he exhibited in Rome at the Torretta Valadier and in Monte Carlo, in 2002 at the Rome Art Biennial at the Bramante halls. Also in 2002, as protagonist of the Mondadori Art Prize, he exhibited at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan.
In 2004 he exhibited in Ghent, Belgium, with great success. In 2005 he is again in Milan at the Palazzo della Permanente. During 2007 he officially founded a new artistic movement under the name of “Hyperestetismo” aimed at the recovery of beauty as an absolute figure of both aesthetics and content in the perspective of a new Renaissance. From this moment on, his artistic message will always revolve around the binomial Good and Evil, Light and Shadow, in which the presence of the Transcendent is developed in the concept of “No Man’s Land” a visual space-non-space where existential opposites will merge in the continuous search for a new, unexplored dimension.
In 2008 he exhibited at the Reggia di Caserta and published as co-author with Mondadori publishing house the book “Il Teorema dell’Arte” (The Art Theorem) with an introduction written by Vittorio Sgarbi. Invited by Professor Vittorio Sgarbi to the 54th Venice International Art Biennale, he exhibited at the Italian Pavilion and participated in the Exhibition “The Shadow of the Divine in Contemporary Art,” a collateral event of the Biennale, at Palazzo Grimani in Venice. He is included in Vittorio Sgarbi’s book “The Shadow of the Divine in Contemporary Art.” Solimani takes part in the 54th Festival of the Two Worlds of Spoleto at Villa Redenta with the exhibition entitled “A Sua Immagine” (In His Own Image) reproposed both at the “Sala Rossa “of the Francesco Gonzaga Museum in Mantua and at the Rocca Paolina in Perugia.
In 2014 he meets Professor Giammarco Puntelli who will become the Curator of the solo exhibition “A Sua Immagine” at the Baptistery of the Cathedral of Spoleto and the exhibition “Imagine” in Biella, Milan, Assisi and Florence.
In 2015 he is invited to the Milan EXPO at Palazzo dei Giuriconsulti, at the official exhibition of Expo 2015 entitled “L’Arte e il Tempo” (Art and Time) curated by Giulia Sillato and Giammarco Puntelli, at Villa Valsecchi curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and the solo exhibition at the Diocesan Museum and Cathedral of Massa. Also in 2015 comes the commissioning of a monumental work by the National Gallery of Calabria in Cosenza to celebrate the figure of St. Francis of Paola, patron saint of the region, the latter work purchased by the Italian State enriching its gallery alongside masterpieces by Luca Giordano and Mattia Preti.
In 2016 he holds a solo exhibition entitled “Gratia Mundi” at Villa Mirra in Cavriana. The exhibition acquires an artistic value of considerable importance, the result of several years of work, it is articulated on a historical path entrusted to the presence on the canvases of famous women of History, interpreted with rare participation by a single model. This is a hymn to femininity and grace, which is its highest expression. At the invitation of the Vatican in 2016 we find him works at the official Jubilee Exhibition in Rome at the monumental complex Basilica dei Quattro Santi Coronati (Basilica of the Four Crowned Saints) titled “L’Eternità nell’Arte” (Eternity in Art). Invited to the International Biennale of Art in Rome in 2017 he exhibits at the monumental complex of the Stadio di Domiziano (Stadium of Domitian).
In 2018 he is invited to participate in the exhibition project “GENIUS”, an anticipation of the celebrations of the Leonardian year with exhibitions at Palazzo Medici-Ricciardi in Florence, Palazzo Pretorio and the National Museum of Anghiari and the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci. Also in this year is the publication of the book “Genius” by Mondadori Editore, on the figure of Leonardo da Vinci, presented at the Uffizi Museum in Florence. Once again in Florence, in 2020, he exhibits at the Museum of San Marco “Musiwa” international artists in comparison and in Naples at Castel dell’Ovo is invited to the Exhibition “Troisi poet Maximo” to celebrate the figure of the great late actor.
His works have appeared for years in public and private collections both in Italy and abroad.