Italian Modernist Pop Art Oil Painting on Cement Mixed Media Paolo Valle, Venice

Dimensions: H: 29.5, W: 37.0 IN

Paolo Valle (born 1948)

Venicem Italy,

Original mixed media oil painting

and cement or plaster on burlap canvas.

title: A

Sud Di Rio.

Depicts abstract forms with a

raised textured and heavy application of medium.

Hand signed lower right and dated 95'.

Further signed on verso, along with title.

Work measures 27 1/2" x 35 1/2". Housed in frame measuring 29.5" x 37".

Paolo Valle, painter and sculptor, was born in Venice, Italy in 1948. After graduating in Graphic Arts, he had the opportunity to attend a course held by the famous artist Oskar Kokoschka, an encounter which proved fundamental for the development of his artistic career and which influenced his expressive language. His numerous travels to the East constituted another important source of inspiration for the artist. During his career, he also dedicated himself to teaching lithography, intaglio and screen printing, both in Rome and Venice. His works are characterized by a rigorous black mark, which appears as a powerful gesture that contains and controls all the creative energy. His painting is strongly symbolic. Sandro Parmiggiani, wrote: "Paolo Valle's journey towards abstraction has reached a new station in recent years, marked by the conquest of a kind of childish, primordial language, as if the artist's effort over time was to immerse himself in darkness, to strip away all ornaments, all customary viewing habits – that was the ultimate destination of Joan Miró, and George Braque himself pursued throughout his life the truth related to the ability to escape from 'definition'. Because Paolo Valle is not just a painter, but, being Venetian, also a careful traveler capable of drawing inspiration from various cultures, especially those of Southeast, to which he is particularly attached, from the Balkans to Iran. Paolo Valle's painting today reaches new levels of abstraction and subtraction. An unmistakable mark, strong and fascinating like only the primitivism of the sign can do. His work has the bold colors and shapes of Memphis Milano art and bears the influence of Gerard Garouste. Valle has taught lithography, intaglio, and serigraphy in Rome and Venice.

Valle also created important works outside Italy, exhibiting his works in the main museums of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Chile, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia, as well as in public and private collections. Today the artist lives and works in his hometown, Venice, He has executed important works in Berlin, Salzburg, Santiago de Chile, Rome, Paris, Naples, and Venice Yugoslavia, as well as in public and private collections. He taught lithograph, chalcography and silkscreen printing in Rome and Venice. Exhibitions include: Aktuarius Gallery in Strasbourg, Racine Gallery in Barbizon, Tornabuoni Arte Center in Florence in 2002, Art Work Speyer Gallery in Speyer in 2003, Galleria Arte Cornice in 2005 and 2007. (they show Arte Povera artists including Enrico Baj, Luca Alinari, Antonio Carena, Philippe Artias, Carla Accardi and Antonio Bueno.) His works were shown in an exhibition in 1981 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has produced Murano glass sculpture, at Studio Berengo. (they produced Juan Garcia Ripolles, Luigi Benzoni, Riccardo Licata and Kiki Kogelnik) He has also shown at Punto Arte. Founded in 1990 and directed by Enrico Fruggeri, the Punto Arte gallery operates in the field of contemporary art and with the utmost respect for the many languages ​​it uses, whether figurative, informal or conceptual. Since the beginning it has proposed exhibitions of high-level international masters such as: André Masson, Bengt Lindstrom, Luciano Minguzzi, Riccardo Licata, Yoshin Ogata, Enrico Baj; of emerging artists such as, among others, Carlo Bertè, Paolo Valle, Sergio Zanni, Carlos Puente. In 1994, to formally place itself among the interlocutors of public institutions, it transformed into a cultural association. The exhibition activity continues without interruption and is accompanied by careful work of valorization of young artists through the promotion of personal and collective exhibitions. Raoul Schultz,

Carmelo Zotti,

Paolo Zanucco,

Eugenio Da Venezia,

Nelio Sonego,

Matteo Massagrande,

Vincenzo Censotti,

Gianfranco Goberti,

Carlo Ciussi,

Gian Gulli,

Vinicio Vianello,

Sergio Zen,

Malek Pansera,

Walter Fusi,

Gino Morandis,

Lamberto Lamberti,

Leone Minassian,

Vanni Viviani,

Andrea Raccagni,

Luigi Cobianco,

Aldo Agnini,

Oddino Guarnieri,

Gino Moro,

Saverio Barbaro