Valeria Pesce

VALERIA PESCE (Sardinia, Italy, 1963).
"La bella in blu, Fashion Victim nº9".2023.
Oil on canvas.
Signed on the back.
Measurements: 75 x 65 x 3,5 cm.
Valeria Pesce studied graphic design in Cagliari and in New York, residing later in Milan and moving in 1991 in Barcelona, where she lives and works nowadays. Self-taught, she uses preferably a combination of 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, dwelling on those filmic scenes of special psychological density, which is underlined by localized blurs and a palette whose tonal hallmarks transcribe the gradations of mood. He has exhibited in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Slovenia. Among his latest exhibitions, we mention: "In Movimento" Akashi Gallery, Barcelona, 2014; Alta Marea, Hotel Italia, Cagliari, 2013; "Sirenes" Espai B, Barcelona, 2013; "Nel Sogno dei Pesci" Ayurveda center, Cagliari, 2013; "Horror Vacui" collective, Montcada Gallery, Barcelona, 2010; "Maçart 13" cross-border art collective; "Cogito ergo sumo" Galleria Spazio P, Cagliari, 2009; "Pesci qua e là" Galleria Spazio P, Cagliari; "Artita 08", Pirano, Slovenia, 2008; "Piscis" Anaconda Atelier, Paris, 2007; "Severia Art Gallery" Koper, Slovenia, 2006; Künstler Saarmesse, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2006; Galleria Borgogno, Milan 2003.