-BLACK STAR

2018

Silicone, resin, nylon, yak & human hair.

- Baby Artists

2018

Silicone, human hair, oil paints, plastic material

The sculptural installation is an allegory that tell us how an art Master maintains, or should maintain his fresh playfulness key factor of a light-hearted child. The theory of the figure of the Artist as an eternal child is linked to the theme of game, that symbolizes the dimension of creativity.  A mature artist who, once acquired total mastery of the techniques, goes back to create with light-heartedness, joy or even innocence.

- Love you to pieces

2018

45 cm x 42,5 cm x 19 cm

Silicone, epoxy resin, fishing line

-IN THE BOX 1

2015

Silicone, fiberglass, wood, fishing line ,oil colours

63cm x 80cm x 29cm

In the Box 1 is part of a series of portraits, which capture someone through their on perspective as a portrait par excellence. The man's eye, his so-called door to the soul, but as well the door from which the person sees the world. With 'in the In the Box 1 we are looking at total closure ( regarding reality)

-WE WILL NEVER MEET AT THAT AGE

2012
photographic prints and video

prints 46cm x 30,5cm each

Valter created a self-portrait of his own ageing physiognomy, documenting his parents’ reaction to seeing their son at an age they will never meet in real life with a moving image piece, thus creating an impossible time breach in the fabric of his parents’ existence.
We will never meet at that age explores the concepts of time, life and death.

 

-IN THE BOX 2

2015

Silicon, fiberglass, wood, fish pole, oil colours

39cm x 42cm x 25 cm

In the Box 2 is the second portrait in the series, in contrast to the first one with this portrait we do not know if the person is about to open or close their eye creating an effect of suspense, it's the description of an instant between nothingness and reality.

- Listen to me

2018

190 cm x 96 cm x 82 cm

Silicone, wood, metal bits, wooden chair and books

-In the Box series

 2017

Silicone, epoxy resin, fishing line, oil colours

44cm x 49,5cm x 25cm

The series In the box is composed by different panels of similar size. Each panel represents an area of body enlarged to a bigger scale. Each piece is made from a cast of the artist's body itself. The series inherits the title, and develops, from the two previous works. In the box 1 and 2, respectively depicting the eye of the father and the mother of the artist, enclosed in a wooden box which try to metaphorize the well known Ernst Gombrich's theory: the virgin eye doesn’t exist, our eye perception is always bound to a so-called "conceptual clothes." In this case, however, the panels, relative to the parts of the body, are not enclosed by a frame and the reason is that through the body and the perception that it can have, we have access to a knowledge less constrained with respect to visual perception. The "frames" that surround these panels are made of skin as to suggest that here, the limit of our perception is nothing more than the finiteness of the flesh as a shell of a mortal body.

Exploring truth and fiction in a journey that leads childhood into the adult world and transports old age into youth.

-WISDOM

2015

Epoxy resin, gypsum, paint

40cm x 20cm

Teeth conserve the psycho-emotional memory of our life, they are a key to bring the subconscious mind into consciousness.
The lower right wisdom tooth reflects the power that we develop to express our feelings on our surroundings. This self portrait starts from an experience known to many, the wisdom tooth extraction. The tooth is presented in its actual state at the moment of the dental operation and through the consecutive phases representing the value of awareness , permutation from pain, acquisition and normalization.

-Stringiamoci a coorte

2017

120cm x 50cm x 60cm

This hand belongs to the father's mother whom died recently. The title takes us into the heart of the work that began as a reflection on Italy, a dedication to the modern condition of a country tired and in decline.
The work is also a reflection on the condition of women workers, represented by a hand marked by the experience, love and fatigue It poses in the rest position, the moment of pause and little recollection before a future finished. One face to the past, looking of a woman's employment status that concerns us and, concerns us as Sons, the only
condition, the latter, shared by the entire human race. The hand sculpture holds a rosary, this underline another aspect as the strong Christian interference due to the geographical proximity of the church in Italy.Beyond a positive reading of religion or not, it unfolds here as a feature of past Italian generations , which for most people led to a life of full dedication to the church itself. In the rosary there is also a lace insert, realized ad hoc, from one of the few coamings lacemaker from Burano.Here we have a tone of hope, given by the mastery in Venice and around the world have, in recent centuries, being distinguished for the excellence of laborious and native manufactures. This tribute to Burano lace wants to be a metaphor, positive and hopeful, of the quality handicraft, tipical in Italy.

- Untitled

2018

210 cm x 30 cm x 5 cm

Silicone, fishing line, yak hair, human hair

Rita Levi Montalcini portrait -I Lived Forever

2013

Silicone , fiberglass, Yak hair, oil colors, wood, fabric

90cm x 45cm x 40cm

A sculpture to honour the memory of Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, a year from her passing.
The values and principles highlighted by this piece are those of Rita's exemplary life conduct, especially in regards to her attitude towards younger generations and their potentials in the future, both from an educational and creative point of view.

"A small lady with an indomitable will but the bearing of a princess", are the words Primo Levi used to describe Rita Levi-Montalcini, a life member of the Italian Senate and a truly illustrious figure in the history of world science who was awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine for her discovery of the nerve growth factor (NGF) in 1986.

Rita Levi-Montalcini is portrayed as serene and ageless, her lips hint at a slight but knowledgeable smile, evoking not only her determination, but also her constant awareness and fresh spirit. This work is not only a tribute to a famous figure in both the social and scientific world, but more importantly to a woman with a fierce and immense strength of mind. She stated that "one must never give up in life, submit to mediocrity, but rather come out of that 'grey zone' in which everything is habit and passive resignation, one must nurture the courage to rebel" (2008). Always interested in others and often careless of her own well-being, throughout the one hundred and three years of her life, Rita Levi-Montalcini reserved great hopes in the capabilities, and most of all in the potentials, of new generations. In an age of alarming social fragility which is compelling young people to search for better lives away from Italy and where women continue to be the objects of a strongly patriarchal society, it is in the artist's intentions to celebrate and remember the life and indomitable strength of mind of this woman, majestically portrayed in a larger-than-life size. The reason for this is to evoke the superiority of her moral commitments and her strength of mind over the harsh, concrete reality of the world and the obstacles she faced with extraordinary courage, almost inviting us to follow in her steps.

-Garbage series 2017-2018

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- Her

2018

48cm X 35cm X 30cm circa

Silicone, human hair, oil colours,

smaller artworks of variable dimensions  

Garbage is a series of several sculptures produced in silicone and which represent the discarded objects such as the water bottle, the vial of the milk, the crushed cans. It's urgency to reflect on the skin as a mere ego shell, seen in its shade border and deadly container. Although lunges series roots of inspiration in pop tradition, it develops a reinterpretation by nihilistic tones.

-Window in Time

2016

Silicone , fiberglass, human hair , oil colors, wood, fabric

65cm x 4ocm x 40cm

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. "
- Leonardo da Vinci

-HERE AND NOW

2015

epoxy resin, wood, aluminium, led light

43,5cm x 87,5cm x 10cm

Here and Now is a self portrait exploring the notion of the present moment, the only instant to which we should be anchored to. Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: “Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.”