Biography

Valentina Porcelli is an Italian artist who graduated in painting with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia. She began her artistic career as a child, showing a keen interest in portraiture. Strongly attracted by traditional European painting and photography, she deepened her studies on oil technique. Her theater experience contributed to her knowledge of the expressiveness of the body and its language, leaving the gesture and pose with a strong emotional charge.

In 2016, the artist synthesized his knowledge into a style somewhere between realism and illustration, achieving metaphysical nuances through monochromatic backgrounds. In October of the same year, she took part in the Salerno Youth Biennial and won the first painting prize, and from there, the first publication of the important national art magazine Frattura Scomposta Contemporary magazine and other collaborations and exhibition experiences. Since the beginning of his career, she has used female subjects, initially immersed in a monochromatic blue background.

Since 2018, the artist has felt the need to move away from the initial background, delimiting the blue within a circle. This one, together with the protagonists, becomes the focal point of the composition, turning into a symbol. The paintings offer the viewer a moment of intimacy with the subjects. Most of the women in her paintings look into the eyes of the viewer, creating an understanding. Since the end of 2019, her painting has evolved again through the use of gold and the addition of other components in the pictorial composition: birds and plants. The artist currently lives and works in Parma.

Valentina Porcelli is a figurative artist oriented toward a style somewhere between realism and metaphysics. The models she uses, real women, in most of her paintings look at the viewer: creating a connection and dialogue with the audience. His current oil painting combines the gilding technique with the addition of other components in the composition: birds and plants. These works represent the encounter between man and nature, in this case "woman" and nature. They arise from the artist's need to want to restore order to something that has now been lost, a symbolic and metaphorical union between human beings and Mother Earth.