$1,600.00
Solo Exhibitions
Claudio Valenti was born in Italy where, despite an early interest in drawing, he graduated with a Masters in Gregorian Chant and Choral Director, before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1999 to work as a music teacher and composer.
His visual arts practice embraces the disciplines of painting, drawing and photography. Valenti feels they all strongly relate and co-exist together. In art, as in his music, he is driven by the suggestive rather than the immediate, depicting imaginary landscapes where texture and light play a dominating role.
'I have always been attracted to the use of new materials.
I work on the utilitarian panels that surface our ordinary environments...'
'The rhythm of everyday life is fast and overwhelming... beauty can easily pass by unnoticed... we need to learn how to look, how to see... and to recognise... to learn to look at things differently.'
'Panting landscapes is never an end in itself, but instead, a vision of contemplation and meditation, evoking memories, and provoking introspection…'
'Using lithographic ink on melamine panel, together with a repetitious process of adding and scraping back, using only a printmaking roller, kitchen papers and scraping tools, has allowed me to blur the boundaries between painting and drawing (and), above all… to search for beauty even where it may not seem to exist…'
~ Claudio Valenti, 2023
Available Work
![PREVIEW[23], in Gallery_1, offers new works anticipating our Artists exhibitions planned for 2023. Exhibitions dates: 03-11 December 2022 and weekends 14-29 January 2023.](https://artsite.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/pv23-category-wp.webp)
![REVIEW[22], celebrate the close of our 2022 exhibitions program with REVIEW[22] in Gallery_2. Exhibitions dates: 03-11 December 2022 and weekends 14-29 January 2023. All Welcome. Artwork detail: Christine Druitt Preston: Revisiting Earlier Days - Tuntable Creek, 2021.](https://artsite.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/rv22-hero-wp.webp)