My name is Valerio, and I am a visual artist who utilizes digitization techniques such as AI tools, motion graphics, photo and video editing, and sound design to give shape to my vision of space, environment, and relationships. My personal analysis focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment, with particular attention to the concept of medium, alienation, and the dichotomies that characterize our era. My worlds are meant to represent a dual spectacle, in a desperate search for that "culture of opposites" which is the foundation of our formation. Often, my figures find themselves struggling with grotesque elements (a product of the short-circuiting of these dichotomies) or, in some cases, fluid and circular—unclassifiable in any possible scenario (human-non-human). Sacredness, natural elements, forms as primitive yet futuristic concepts (such as flying spheres and bodies shaped by liquid) are, in my imagination, in open conflict and simultaneously in symbiosis with nature-technology, the neo-stepmother of the creatures I set in motion.
Through my work, I seek to explore divisive topics such as the human-machine relationship, and to cite Gunther Anders, its "Promethean gap," the increasingly invasive presence of technology in our lives, while evaluating it with a critical yet open perspective, the changing relationship with elements of nature, and the emptying of spaces and bodies. The use of generative technology, in my view, is in open search of a dialogue between humans and machines, seeing the latter as a kind of "third hand," offering a more positive, albeit not reassuring, perception.
Events at Rome Art Week
2024
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Vernissage Friday 25 Oct 2024 | 18:30-21:30
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