Walter Valentini (1928) - La città del sole

Walter Valentini –

The City of the Sun

Valuable etched/engraved print retouched by hand by the artist.

Year: 1987.
Sheet size: 208 x 80 cm.
Edition: hand-signed and numbered: II/XV.
Technique: intaglio engraving with gold leaf retouches.
The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the Alter Ego art gallery of Ponte Tresa, Switzerland.
Will be shipped by express courier.
The work is published in the TxT Grafical Work catalog '72 - '89.

The work is unframed; the photos are for illustrative purposes only.

Walter Valentini:
Internationally renowned artist, solo exhibitions from 1973 to today: in Italy, from Messina, Milan, Rome, Naples, Bari, Bologna, Trieste, Bolzano, Padua, Mantua, to Cagliari, etc.;
Abroad, from Krakow, Stockholm, Hamburg, New York, Luxembourg, Aspen (USA), Paris, Antwerp, Cologne, Monte Carlo, Istanbul, Ankara, Strasbourg, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, Seoul, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Prague, Innsbruck, Hollola (Finland), Buenos Aires,
Bucharest, Madrid, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Tokyo, Sakaide (Japan), Fredrikstad (Norway), Düsseldorf, Zurich, Oakland (USA), Barcelona, Basel, Ghent (Belgium), Zurich, Soest (Netherlands), Moscow, etc.

He has won numerous awards and participated in numerous exhibitions: the 1st Italian Contemporary Engraving Biennale in Venice in 1955; the Ibiza and Listowel International Biennials; the Krakow International Biennale in 1984; the Ljubljana International Biennial in 1984 and 1989; the Venice Biennale 'XLVII'; the Rome Quadriennale in 1999.
He created, on direct commission, large installations in Milan, Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Chiaravalle (Ancona), Pesaro, Siegburg (Germany), Connecticut and Aspen (USA).
He was part of the group that designed the Ca' Staccolo church in Urbino in 2001. Valentini’s universe is poetic, rhythmic and musical, with geometric and evocative symbolism that leads to a quasi-metaphysical and surrealist synthesis, a relationship between sign, structure and visual matter that tends toward a new constructivism so full of suggestions as to appear as “mental states.” Since the 1970s he has explored the link between painting and engraving, together with a deep determination of space with temporal connotations, time and space, interpreted and reinvented masterfully through lines, abrasions, cracked walls, magical and poetic architectures and geometries.

Walter Valentini was born in Pergola (Pesaro). Valentini lived in Rome from 1947 to 1948 and in 1949 moved to Milan, where among his teachers were Max Huber, Albe Steiner and Luigi Veronesi. In 1950 he moved from Lombardy to Urbino, where he lived until 1955 and attended the Institute of Fine Arts (Book School). It was here that he discovered the art of printmaking. In this city he also encountered Renaissance culture, which would leave a deep mark on his future work. During these years, Valentini mainly devoted himself to graphic research and printing, participating in specialized exhibitions. After completing his studies in 1955, he left Urbino to return to Milan, where he has lived ever since. In Milan he began as a graphic designer, gradually turning to painting. He was fascinated by a geometric universe, which seems to echo De Chirico’s Metaphysical Art. It is precisely these formally strict aspects that Valentini emphasized in the 1970s, always from a technical point of view.