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06.05.2023

On February 2023 Valentina Diena starts a new collaboration with Punto Sull'Arte International Contemporary Art Gallery, located in Varese, Italy, which is currently the artist's representative gallery.        

Punto Sull'Arte art gallery is a benchmark for Italian and international Contemporary Art. With three galleries both in Varese, it is located in a strategic position, few kilometres from Milan, the Swiss border and Lake Maggiore. Every year the gallery presents, in his exhibition venues, at least seven shows and, since 2012, it has regularly taken part in some of the most important Modern and Contemporary Art Fairs.
Always committed to the promotion of contemporary painters and sculptors, Punto Sull'Arte has a dual soul: on the one hand, it has always tent to the international art market. Curiosity and sensitivity towards what is moving around the art scene has been, and still is, one of the keys to the success of the Gallery, able to boast an important portfolio of artists from all over the world. On the other hand, it is, however, strongly based on the discovery and promotion of Italian artists with contemporary sensibility and mastery.         

Punto Sull'Arte is now representing, among other several italian and foreigner artists, also Valentina Diena, whose works are now permanently exhibited at Punto Pop, the third gallery space opened on May 2023.


 

Punto Sull'Arte - Punto Pop

 

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"Petrol cans signed Vuitton, colorful balloons with Chanel logo, king size Doctor Martens leather boots that seem to come out of the painting, elegant giant lipsticks, an ostrich that imperturbably crosses colorful urban landscapes and the iconic “Balloon Dog”. Here is Pop, popular art which is directly connected with our daily obsessions, brands as symbols of modernity, consumption that tries to mediate with the imagination of those who create, the fetish object that becomes enormous. Neo Pop breaks through every social barrier, mixing high and low culture, entering homes with works of almost obsessive evidence, which make us remember how our life is continuously bombarded by cult objects, almost always superfluous and perhaps expensive, but indispensable to our eyes. It is a relentless struggle that the artists, with their hypersensitivity to the new and to changing fashions, try to win, manifesting in the works a sort of love-hate towards the consumer society, and witnessing the profound signs of globalization and the paradoxical isolation of the individual, who has himself become an object of consumption.ve evidence, which make us remember how our life is continuously bombarded by cult objects, almost always superfluous and perhaps expensive, but indispensable to our eyes. It is a relentless struggle that the artists, with their hypersensitivity to the new and to changing fashions, try to win, manifesting in the works a sort of love-hate towards the consumer society, and witnessing the profound signs of globalization and the paradoxical isolation of the individual, who has himself become an object of consumption."

Punto Sull'Arte
 

Punto Pop is the third gallery of Punto Sull'Arte, which celebrated its opening on May 20, 2023.
On display there is, alongside already international well-known artists, such as Jeff Koons, Angelo Accardi and Giuseppe Veneziano, a selection of young talented emerging ones.

This is the case of Valentina Diena, who carries out an almost police investigation around the objects we are used to seeing in our daily lives, without worrying about observing them closely and giving them the right weight in our lives. The artist, on the contrary, takes their fetishism to extremes, making them almost grotesque, but of an extraordinary formal perfection, thanks to the incredible pictorial technique evident in the use of colored pencils.
On show, Farewell, depicting a pair of boots Dr Martens, Eat or Beaten, the chess queen and king diptych, Nosedive!, the candy dispenser.



Punto Pop, opening day

 


 


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