Walter Valentini (1928) - senza titolo

Rare etching from the book Galileo Galilei, Ante Litteram exemplar from 1998 on 600-gram paper, 35 x 24.5 cm, from the Duchene Moulins de Larroque paper mill. Printed by G. Sardella in Milan.

Walter Valentini (Pergola, October 22, 1928 – Milan, May 20, 2022) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker, internationally recognized in the field of graphics and engraving.
Numerous awards and participations: 1st Biennale of Contemporary Italian Engraving in Venice in 1955; International Biennales of Ibiza and Listowel; Krakow International Biennale in 1984; Ljubljana International Biennale in 1984 and 1989; the 47th Venice Biennale; the Rome Quadrennial in 1999.
He realized, 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 in 2001 designed the Ca' Staccolo church in Urbino.
An universe, Valentini’s, poetic, rhythmic, musical—a geometric and evocative symbolism that leads toward a synthesis, almost metaphysical and surrealist, a relationship between sign, structure and visual matter that tends toward a new constructivism rich in suggestive powers, to the point of appearing as “states of mind.” Since the 1970s he deepened the bond between painting and engraving together with a sustained exploration of space with temporal valences, time and space, interpreted and reinvented with mastery through lines, abrasions, cracked walls, architectures and magical, poetic geometries.