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Madame Decadent
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Madame Decadent arise in Florence (Italy) in 1983 with the name of Katia Di Stefano. Since her childhood she used graphical arts as a way to escape from a hardship situation, both individual and familiar, which gave her a predisposition towards expressive choices, sometimes even disturbing and characterized by shattering violence.
Imagination and drawing helped her to grow up stronger than ever and immediately became a totalizing passion in her life. So after the teen years the move to Florence for the Porta Romana School of Arts has been unavoidable.
The academy of arts played a key role in his maturation as an artist. In Florence she acquired important concepts like discipline, rigour and dedication.
During those years she learned the way to use ancient and traditional techniques, becoming able to dominate them also upon different kinds of media. In the meanwhile she joined a theatrical company, where she worked as an action-painting performer in several Tuscan theaters and bringing her inner world even on urban contexts. After this period full of interesting studies and uniques experiences, the hunger for knowledge brought her to a confrontation with innovative medias and techniques at the "International school of comics" in Florence, where she met Mr. Gianni "GiPi" Pacinotti, her friend and mentor.
This school, giving her the skills to manipulate modern techniques, helped her to find the trait d' union and the damping factors between modern and classic and, therefore, also to find out the way to combine them creating contrasts and harmonies.
Encouraged and promoted by her tutors, during those years she continued working as an action painter, moving her performances towards premises and artistic events. It was during those days that she started feeling a keen attraction for tattoos, that soon became a true passion, turning her body into a new artistic land to discover, due to this new personal “demon".
This discover brings her to Rome, where she started a new life.
The roman years immediately showed her great potentialities. While continuing experimentation and pictorial production, she started a collaboration with the "A di Anna" review as an illustrator. Some appraisers of her works also began ordering her paintings for themselves. This is also the period in which her passion for photography started to bear fruits.
The first result was encouraging: her paintings were exposed in several underground roman spaces and she was engaged as a photo-reporter for some Female Cut events. After a new performance of action painting during selections for MarteLive, she has been noticed by some critics and gallery owners.
The consequences of the incoming requests was a full busy schedule of new events. She has been invited as a performer to the 4th Edition of Torture Garden Main Party, the main Fetish event in Italy, with a performance of action painting. She then created the performance "Schwarze Traum", a mix of action painting and of great expressive force that immediately stirred up a lot of interest all around and become a milestone in her career.
On September 25th 2011 she participated to the Italian Contemporary Art event presented by the association "LARTEPIU" at the "Circolo degli Artisti" club in Rome, and in that occasion she brought on stage "Schwarze Traum" for the very first time. During this event she also exhibited a selection of her works.
The idea of "Schwarze Traum" is strong but also well accepted and loved by organizers, and this leads her to fill again a personal calendar full of events.
On September 30th she participated in the group show "CARPE VIAM, Follow the road” at Elsa Morante multipurpose center in Rome, organized by the Traslochi ad Arte.
In October - from 7th to 8th - she performed in Gori Theatre in Siena and after a few days, on October 14th she was the main guest at the local cultural centre Hula Hoop in Rome. Adding to all this, on October 13th she participated in the MarteLive finals.
On November 5th she performed her "Schwarze Traum" during the coolest night in the capital, "Female Cut" LANIFICIO 159.
She resulted one of the winner of MarteLive's award, she gained the first prize for the painting section. During the award ceremony at the Galleria d'Arte Mithraeum she performed "Schwarze Traum" one more time. Pictures and shots taken during the performance by art photographer Gabriella Cinà were added to the exhibition “La Viande Rouge”, a traveling exhibition accompanying “Schwarze Traum" in the various galleries.
With this award the 2011 ends its running time.
Let's go now to the 2012 - On May 2nd she presented "Philia", her solo paintings exhibition at Hula Hoop in Rome. “Philia” show us a selection taken from her last paintings about love. The exposure it’s opened with another novelty, the new body and painting performance “In Albis”. The new creation, far away from the physically dynamism of "Schwarze Traum" catch the audience with its touch of mental intense approach.
From Mat 18th to June 7th she took part of first Loverista exhibition, always into Hula Hoop location and also to the second one still in Rome, on July 20th, this time in Multipurpose Cultural Center “Elsa Morante”.
In the end of July, from 27th to 29th she has been selected for “Alterazioni” a visual arts festival in Grosseto and also for the “Fiorenza Sorbelli” award at Mondrian Suite gallery in Rome
Another exhibition with Loverista collective closed the 2012: on December 2nd - “Make love with us” the title of the presentation - as in the past still in Rome, but with a new location into the library ”Antica Biblioteca Valle”.
The year 2013 starts like the end of the previous. Another collaboration with Loverista Collective in February from 15th to 27th and the group show “Corpo di donna” in March (from 1st to 17th), both demonstrations in multipurpose center “Elsa Morante”/Rome. In this second show she opened the vernissage with “in Albis” solo performance.
Still in March another group show – Plurale, femminile – a traveling exhibition that started at "The Other Side of The Ink" Tattoo Convention in Rome and moved to others town.
The ink seems to be the key word, in November she moved to Florence, her hometown for the 6th Florence Tattoo Convention where she bring back from the closet her "Schwarze Traum" performance.
Another year is gone and 2014 is behind the corner.
The new year gave new breed and Madame Decadent pulls out from the hat a new project: "NIX”. The new work - a strong impact for the audience inspired by oriental art – uses the body for showing and explain everything that physical restraint arouses to human beings. “NIX” debut was planned for Kokeshi Rebel Fest at Visual in Rome and became immediately a classic Decadent’s performance.
In June she took part to collective exhibition "Urban Portraid" organized by DNA Project Collective into “Volturno Occupato” in Rome. In the meantime she moved to the north for the La Spezia Tattoo Convention where she gave birth to a revisited version of “NIX”.
After the sunny summer MD shows her paintings again in Rome at the collective exhibition “Pagine Aperte” in September into the “Clandestina” cultural association rooms. The discriminant for take part to the event is the reinterpretation of Cristiano Quagliozzi works.
A month later, in October she was one of the artists who took part to “AMaRTE” a special project for the suburbs territories with which artists in Rome wants to give new life and new hopes to these forgotten districts. A special event needs a special contribution, and Madame Decadent not only showed her works, she also realized a live painting previously unreleased. A kind of “one night only”. For this occasion the soundtrack of her exhibitions is realized by Stefano Zacchi, who create new sounds inspired from MD paint in real time. A very special soundtrack born with the instinct of both artists. The show was acclaimed by the crowd and make them think about a second special duo performance for the future. Some days later the performed the same shows at Spin Time Labs with the exception of a new wall paint: 3 meters in 6 minutes!
Like the previous year she took part to all female Rome Tattoo Convention “The Other Side Of Ink” with a new works based on Mike Papa music sounds.
More and more oriented to contemporary performative arts she's working on new projects, but the most important thing is that she won’t give up the brush...

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Bella EnjoyPorno!!!!!!!! ci piace!!!
Ben arrivata ;D è inutile sai già quanto mi piacciono i tuoi lavori! ma lo ripeto lo stesso MERAVIGLIOSI!
Grazie mille Elena!! Sei sempre super carina!!! pronta per il 28? ieri non sono andata a Martelive e non ho potuto incontrare Marco..
ahaha si si pronta sto cercando di capire come vestirmi XD
hahah! ti è arrivato il messaggio su facebook?? quello che parlava del dress code?? Queste limitazioni le ho sempre odiate, per finire poi tutti vestiti uguali...le donne da mignotte e gli uomini da coglio..i! uff..dai tu stai tranquilla per le ragazze è più facile, poi se fanno storie chiamiamo Marco...
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