Valerio Ventura | 25 Oct 2025 | Rome Art Week

Valerio Ventura Open Studio

Details of the Contemporary

Details of the Contemporary is a project that investigates human identity today through three images of a papier-mâché and clay sketch, intentionally left unfinished. The incomplete sculpture becomes a metaphor for a humanity in constant transformation: contemporary man is no longer the one of the past, but a being in the making, searching for new forms and meanings.

The central theme is uniqueness: the details that define each individual are not only physical traits, but signs of cultural, social, and inner transformations. Every fragment of material reflects both the fragility and the strength of a creative process that never truly ends, just like the evolution of humankind itself.

The work invites the viewer to wonder: what will the man of the future look like? Which path will he follow to stay aligned with the contemporaneity ahead? The three photographs thus become a journey into the possible, an open dialogue between unfinished and complete, between present and future.

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