Walter Valentini (1928) - Viaggio

Magnificent etching with gold leaf retouch, 50 x 120 cm on handmade Colombe paper - Moulin de Larroque. Very low edition tiratura: VII / XXX. Shipped in a tube.

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.

He was a master of techniques such as etching, aquatint, mezzotint, color lithography, and copper engraving. Born in Pergola (Pesaro-Urbino) in 1928, he trained between Rome, where he studied under Consagra, Turcato, and Cagli, and Milan with masters Veronesi, Huber, and Steiner. Settling in Milan in 1955, the artist for the last thirty years worked on large cycles of works expressing his interest in the ideal representation of space and time. In 1977 he was invited to the 47th Venice Biennale and in 1999 to the Rome Quadriennale.

He received numerous recognitions, including the Michetti prize, the first prize at the Ibiza International Biennial, at Listowel, and at Kraków. In 2006, in Piazza S. Ambrogio in Milan, a large bronze sculpture, “MEMORIA,” dedicated to the fallen of the Vicenza Division in Russia, was installed. In 2008 a major retrospective was dedicated to him in Ancona, at the Mole Vanvitelliana. In 2014, at the Osvaldo Licini House Museum in Monte Vidon Corrado, the retrospective “Siderea mensura” was hosted. From April 1 to October 30, 2017, the exhibition “The Rigour of Geometry, the Fractures of Art” took place at the Centro d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in La Spezia. From December 8, 2018 to February 3, 2019, the exhibition “… as at the limit of infinite time” was held at the Albani Gallery in Urbino.

From September 24 to October 26, 2019, at the Cortina Gallery in Milan, on the occasion of the presentation of the book “90” published by Colophonarte for the artist’s 90th birthday, the exhibition “Walter Valentini. Nine for Ninety.”