Walter Valentini, Mizar, Etching

Walter Valentini

"Mizar" - Etching on paper Colombe Duchêne of the paper mill Moulin De Larroque

cm. 37x27

signed and numbered by hand by the artist on the front side

N. of 100 copies with Arabic numbering and XXX with Roman numbering

Valuable graphic work of very high artistic quality, in perfect condition, not framed.

Complete with Certificate of authenticity and provenance, (signature and embossed stamp of the publisher with photographic reference and numbering)


in the images is presented a numbered specimen for illustrative and descriptive purposes only.

the sample delivered may have a different numbering depending on availability.

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BIOGRAPHY

Walter Valentini (Pergola, October 22, 1928) is an Italian painter, sculptor and engraver, internationally recognized in the field of graphics and engraving. He is a master of techniques such as etching, aquatint, drypoint, multi-color lithography, intaglio.

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

Valentini's geometric imagery is influenced by the Russian avant-garde of the twentieth century (Constructivism) and, marginally, by the architecture painted by de Chirico in the metaphysical period, but it 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 statua by Leon Battista Alberti, De prospectiva pingendi by Piero della Francesca and De divina proportione by Luca Pacioli are treatises on perspective and the golden rule that will orient all of Valentini's research on space, forms and their balance.

Astronomy and cosmography were also important sources of inspiration for Valentini. His approach to architecture and celestial mechanics was mathematical and rigorous, but not without its own 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 will cultivate the friendship of artists such as Luigi Veronesi, Emilio Scanavino and Hans Richter.

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