Fernando Valenti - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

The style of painter Fernando Valenti, in much of his work, is characterized by the development of a strongly expressionist language. The artist seeks to go beyond what is perceived by the senses to extrapolate the true essence of reality and communicate it on canvas in a vibrant and dramatic manner. For this reason, through the application of color, he develops a highly synthesised process that reduces subjects to dense, material layers of paint, in which the painter's emotion is also a key element, conveyed through his brutal gestures. All these elements together constitute the expressionistic power of Fernando Valenti's painting. This power is also based on a specific aesthetic choice that reaffirms the dramatic tone of his works, namely, that of favoring a pronounced impasto of color, from which the images emerge almost with difficulty, establishing a struggle with the paint.

Fernando Valenti is an artist originally from Traona, where he was born in 1931. His paintings focus primarily on still lifes and vases of flowers, but recontextualize them through a unique contemporary sensibility. His style is decidedly expressionist, based on a synthesis of subjects in which the pictorial material and the artist's gestures prevail.

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