In This Place / En Este Lugar

In This Place | En Este Lugar

Though the work of Alfredo De Stéfano is presented in a traditional

photographic format, all conceptions of the image contained in that support

distance themselves from or even subtly confront the traditional ways in

which photography has addressed the complex universe of time, space and

movement.

His "... work acquires a dual meaning: that of being a symbol of emptiness, of the void, of the dead and extinct, and that of being the landscape that is most susceptible to change in any number of ways —paradoxically, because of its vastness and its emptiness. In this sense, the desert is the place that is subject to the rapidest and most drastic changes in its land, due to the extreme conditions under which life is expressed there.

De Stéfano's early interest in the visual arts—especially American abstract expressionism—played in his contemplation of nature.."

Maria A. Iovino

Art Critic

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De Stéfano was born in Monclova, Coahuila, a city in the northeastern

Mexican desert and has a bachelor´s degree in Communication Sciences

by the Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila. He is considered one of

México´s most important contemporary photographers. He has a passion

for the landscape and especially the desert, an environment to which

ha has traveled countless times, performing art interventions in it and

photographing it. Among his photographic series, we should mention Of

Places Without a Future (1992), Remains of Paradise (1996), Replenishing

Emptiness (2002) and Brief Chronicle of Light (2005).All these series are

set in thedesert. His work has been featured in over ninety group and

solo shows in various cities on the five continets. His photographs have

also appeared in numerous books and magazines. His work forms part of

public and private collections in Mexico as well as abroad.