Valeria Del Vacchio

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Time is at the heart of Valeria's research. The need to understand and experiment with the dimension of time  began during her academic studies with the creation of her first video loop.  Nowadays, video loops have become an indispensable tool in the Metaverse, where the video, seen as crypto art, is intended to be viewed as a seamless loop. 

Observing and capturing the movement of man, animals and natural phenomena, Valeria felt the need to transform these actions in order to give them a visual synthesis and to be able to organise them in her memory. This allowed Valeria to interact with silhouettes, add up the wavelengths of visible light, transform the organic into geometry, play with patterns and compositions and explore digital and vector graphics.  These acquired techniques helped Valeria to refine her own personal aesthetics and shift her observations to the mind's movements, thus decoding the maze the mind creates daily. 

Valeria relates routinely with the temporal dimension of repetition. A constant that has guided her towards understanding feelings, such as depression and anxiety. Repetition is key to understanding the various facets the artist creates. A deep connection with silence and a refinement with perception has helped Valeria discover that time is neither heard nor observed, but perceived. 

Being able to perceive time in its subtlety is a necessary prerogative to discover, define and consolidate one's subjective identity. 

In Valeria's work, reflections emerge in the dimensions of space and time, but also, in the notions of existential psychology. Fundamental to her research are visual perception and rhythm. Geometry, aboriginal design, symbolic language, cryptography, provocative surrealism and conceptualism also play a part in Valeria’s work. While the main elements defining V.'s aesthetics are white light and the one colour scheme that favours cyan and magenta, symbols, typefaces, binary series, alphanumeric strings and sequences are other successful aspects of her work. 

Valeria leads the viewer into parallel dimensions, which are sometimes dreamlike and visionary, simple and idyllic, while at other times are enigmatic and complex.  Through the use of multiple tools, she conveys the experience of an artist, who is experiencing the revolution of society precipitating towards Industry 4.0. 

 

Among Valeria's preferred technical tools are both analogue and digital. In fact, V. uses a variety of techniques, such as pen drawing, 2D animation, 3D prints, augmented reality, generative art, and recently, the occasional use of artificial intelligence, to elevate her work. 

 

Observing her own actions and inner self on a daily basis, Valeria creates, with courageous honesty, a kind of analogue-digital biography where dreams, fears and emotions are revealed to the point of being perceived by the reader as his or her own.

 

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You need many places within yourself to have any hope of being yourself. J.-B. Pontalis
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Biancaneve Make-up is inspired by the writings of Wassily Kandinsky on abstraction. The project depicts a day in the life of a Kandinsky-like artist – a spiritual being who communicates through lines, colours and compositions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wassily W. Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin and Anni Albers are amongst the artists, who were influential in the aesthetic and conceptual philosophy of the work. Biancaneve Make-up looks at the symbols and combinatorial principles which are at the basis of the Chinese oracle I Ching, consisting of 64 possible combinations of 6 lines. The creative action starts with the disposition of the lines on the snow on the model of the first hexagram of the oracle, the Qián, or Creative. The artist then interacts with the starting pattern of lines until she breaks them down and finds other unexpected combinations. The lines are made of polystyrene sheets to which coloured pigments have been applied. They have been arranged on the snowy surface and photographed at each displacement made.
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Valeria Del Vacchio is a London-based Italian artist, who studied at the Brera Academy of Arts in Milan and completed a six-month Erasmus exchange program at Offenbach University in Germany. V. has exhibited internationally, including the Rome Media Art Festivals. She was presented at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2014) among the latest trends in Italian numerical video art, and in 2019 V. was introduced in Kaunas at the Vytautas Magnus University of Arts and supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. In 2017, the artist was in residence at the Rivoli 59 studio in Paris. She recently exhibited in London at the Artsect DAO Gallary.

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