One step away from the heart - Luca Vallone

Exhibition focused on feelings : the treasure chiesto of emotions the heart


Rita Levi Montalcini says: "Everyone says that the brain is the most complex organ of the human body... as a doctor ... and as a woman, I assure you that there is nothing more complex than the heart... in the reasoning of in the brain there is logic, in the reasoning of the heart there are emotions”. The Triphè Gallery offers the exhibition: "One step away from the Heart" by the eclectic artist Luca Vallone; an artist, born in 1982, selected among the participants in the 2023 Art Prize. It cannot be denied that the heart has always represented a central theme for many artists; just think of Andy Warhol, one of the fathers of Pop Art, who created the work entitled Heart in 1982, the year of Vallone's birth. Thus, greats of art such as: Leonardo da Vinci with Heart and Blood Vessels, Eugène Delacroix sketch for the Virgin of the Sacred Heart 1821 and Munch "Two Hearts", a work from 1899, located at the Tel Aviv Museum, necessarily return to memory. of art. And again: the hearts of Braque, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and today world-famous artists such as Hirst, Koons, and not least Banksy with his famous work from 2002: Little Girl with a Balloon. Luca Vallone presents himself in this solo show with 'his heart', highly identifiable, with an evident coloristic impact almost as if to underline the centrality of this organ. The heart, in fact, is fundamental not only from an organic point of view, because it is the basis of the vital functions of a living being, but also as a treasure chest of all emotions. A "collector" of feelings, to be managed and coordinated as much as possible with the rational part of the brain to thus achieve an empathic balance. This is how Luca Vallone's words find particular intensity and relevance: "we should all, especially in this period, try to reconnect with our best self." The exhibition, set up in the spaces of the Triphè Gallery located in the Castel Sant'Angelo-San Pietro area, the beating heart of Rome, offers the public two sections of Vallone's exhibition project: a first part, with 10 paintings with installations of hearts and 5 hearts sculptures on pedestals and a second part where the color pink acts in the works as a sort of link of the passage from the skin to the heart.

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