Valery Escalar - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a constant aspiration for painters. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century; up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The seascape in particular is a recurring theme among artists. First, for the lyricism implicit in views overlooking the sea or in romantic images of small harbors. Second, because the depiction of aquatic surfaces allows painters to give free rein to their chromatic creativity, thanks to refined plays of reflections and reverberations. In this work, Valery Escalar offers his own interpretation of the seascape, breaking with tradition and fully in line with the essentially surreal nature of his entire artistic output.

The work is truly fascinating, as it shows how even the interpretation of a naturalistic and landscape subject in Valery Escalar's pictorial language can take on surreal and dreamlike overtones. First, we note how formally the style is coldly objective (in line with historical Surrealism and its greatest exponent, Dalí). The representation allows little or no atmospheric or pictorial effects, so the entire scene is transfigured into a visionary dimension, frozen in a livid moonlight. Even in terms of the subject's conception, the painter reflects a certain desire to transcend perceptible reality: especially the bizarre rock formations (still inspired by Dalí) are constructed with a magmatic and swirling design, almost giving the impression that they belong outside of our dimension.

Valery Escalar, stage name Valeria Fiocchi, was born in Rome in 1932. Initially active in the music world as an opera singer, she later became a painter. She has received 360 awards, both for painting and graphics, and has participated in 110 solo exhibitions and 33 group exhibitions. Her works are held in the Vatican Pinacoteca, the Pontifical Seraficum Theological Faculty in Rome, the Italian Red Cross, the chapel of the Sant'Eugenio Hospital in Rome, the Regina Coeli Penitentiary, and the library of the Sacred Convent of Assisi. She has appeared on numerous television programs.

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