Walter Valentini (1928) - Le misure, il cielo

Beautiful graphic work by Walter Valentini: Le misure, il cielo, 1994.
Etching.
Plate and sheet 29 x 21 cm.
Colombe paper.
Edition 95 + XV + 5 artist's proofs.
Printer G. Serafini - Pesaro.

Walter Valentini (Pergola, 22 October 1928 – Milan, 20 May 2022) was an Italian painter, sculptor and engraver, internationally recognized in the field of graphics and engraving.

In a conversation with art critic Luciano Caprile, Valentini speaks of etching as a discipline that contains in itself something 'sacred': “It is like performing a rite when you etch; and ritual is the way the work is printed. The gestures you use when touching the paper are ritual; and when you wet it, when you place it on the press bed; and finally when it returns to you the mark that you had previously only imagined.”