Valeria Pesce

VALERIA PESCE (Sardinia, Italy, 1963).
"Koi on green background".
Oil on canvas.
Mounted on thick stretcher frame.
Measurements: 92 x 65 x 3 cm.
Valeria Pesce studied graphic design in Cagliari and New York, residing later in Milan and moving in 1991 in Barcelona, where she currently lives and works. Self-taught, she mainly uses oil and acrylic. Fascinated by the vital energy that shakes bodies and stirs consciences, Valeria Pesce follows the trail of every sign of life from the fragmentary: corporal (dreamy eyes, fugitive smiles, pregnant wombs...), vegetal (details of poppies, peonies, tulips...) or aquatic. Even in those series in which the artist seems to abandon her interest in capturing the flowing life, such as those based on film stills, Pesce dabbles in the inner flows of consciousness, which is underlined by localized blurs and a palette whose tonal hallmarks transcribe the gradations of mood. A realistic and dreamlike figuration at the same time, where nothing is the same as it was a second ago, everything flows and transforms. He has exhibited in Spain, Italy, France, England, Germany and Slovenia. His works are in private collections in Germany, United States, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, England, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan and Hong Kong.