La porta del tempo (A), 1989 Walter Valentini

etching
paper: Magnani Pescia
Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist on the front.
Ed. 99 ex.
Untouched, not framed.
Complete with certificate of authenticity and origin (signature and dry stamp of the publisher with photographic reference and numbering).
The images of a framed / numbered copy are for illustrative purposes only, the delivered specimen may have a different numbering depending on availability.

BIOGRAPHY

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

As an artist he established himself in the 1980s with a series of abstract works on panel and paper, all characterized by a precise sense of geometry, proportion and rhythm.

Valentini's geometric imagery is influenced by the twentieth-century Russian avant-garde (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 Italian artists of the fifteenth century: Leon Battista Alberti's De pictura, De re aedificatoria, De statua, Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi, and Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione are treatises on perspective and the golden rule that would guide all of Valentini's research on space, forms, and their balance.

Astronomy and cosmography will also be important sources of inspiration for Valentini. His approach to architecture and celestial mechanics is mathematical and rigorous, but not without its own poetry. Shy and distant 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 taught printmaking at the "New Academy of Fine Arts" in Milan, of which he was also director, from 1983 to 1985.