ArtistValentini, Walter

Artist Years1928-living

Artist NationalityItalian

TitleL’Entrata della Citta’

Year1987

MediumPrint > Embossed Etching

DimensionsSheet: 28 X 47 inches

Accession Number599126

NotesWalter Valentini was born in Pergola on 22 October 1928. He is an Italian painter, sculptor and engraver, internationally recognized in the field of graphics and engraving. He is a master of graphic techniques such as etching, aquatint, drypoint, and lithography.

As an artist he established himself in the eighties with a series of abstract works on wood and paper, all characterized by a precise sense of geometry, proportions and rhythm.

Valentini's geometric imagination is influenced by the influences of the Russian avant-garde of the twentieth century (Constructivism) and, marginally, of the architectures painted by de Chirico in the metaphysical period, but is based above all on the sense of harmony and proportion investigated by the Italian artists of the fifteenth century: De pictura, De re aedificatoria, De statue by Leon Battista Alberti, De prospectiva pingendi by Piero della Francesca and De divina proportione by Luca Pacioli are treated on the perspective and the golden rule that will guide all Valentini's research on space, shapes and their balance.

Astronomy and cosmography are also important sources of inspiration for Valentini. His approach to architecture and celestial mechanics is mathematical and rigorous, but not without poetry. Shy and far from schools, currents and artistic groups, he declares his admiration for the works of Paul Klee, Fausto Melotti and Osvaldo Licini. He has cultivated the friendship of artists such as Luigi Veronesi, Emilio Scanavino, and Hans Richter.

He thought the art of engraving at the "New Academy of Fine Arts" in Milan, of which he was also director, from 1983 to 1985.
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