Critics
ITALIANO
Group exibition "E allora?" - Zerouno, Fondazione Giuseppe de Nittis
Valentina Porcelli is clearly drawn to Portraiture.
Painting people, especially women, is a cardinal prerogative of a mild and intense art, which appears to be easy-to-understand but reveals details, thoroughness and precision, to close examination.
An entire world is hidden and reveals itself, at the same time, in those always mildy tones, in that apparent simplicity that let the protagonists appearing almost withheld for the observer’s eye, with a roughly hewn shadow over a heavenly wilfully light background, where the color distention makes us wonder if those women are actually standing out or if they’re getting into the magic of the space.
A delicate and deliberately placid art from which explodes the sensibility of a young and free soul, and able to introduce a visual dialogue between the observer and the painted subject, always looking for agreement.
From all the artist’s works emerges an unquestioned peace of mind, with common people sitting or standing there and looking at you, frontally or top-down, with no boldness.
Simplicity and the grace of the hand are the exact main features of this art, because of the entire, lexical, ever uttered universe that hides behind those powerful, overwhelming glances.
An art full of so determined class and so much disarming sophistication that you can do anything but cease to enter into the greatness of those heavenly suspended worlds, welcoming the observer in a dimension where he certainly will find himself.
– Anna Soricaro
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Valentina Porcelli uses a plastic realism to share her muses.
Frozen into a suspended moment, the lights, bright to dissolve as many shadows as possible, add to her work a deep sense of apparently unjustified unreality.
The silent gazes appear extremely questioning, encased into the artist’s brushstrokes.
Both the works ask us to go further, to get over the paint on the canvas to interact with the subjects, to overstep that thin layer of skin to meet the purity of the feelings enclosed by the artist.
Her great canvas play with the “still life”, placing at the centre of the works strong and unwavering women, captioned in blurred moments, with a silent but never absent gaze.
The apparent stiff pose communicates strong tension.
Her main characters seem to be caught just a second before a decisive movement, right before a decisional impulse.
– Silvia Rossi