Varesenoi

An empty bottle of precious “Armand De Brignac” champagne can become a symbol of revolt, turning into a molotov cocktail ready to be lit, at least in the pictorial intentions of Valentina Diena, whom the French “brut” costing 300 euros has masterfully reproduced on paper in a 76×112 cm work entitled “Feeling good.”

It is one of the latest works by the Milanese illustrator born in 1996 and graduated in painting at Brera Academy in 2022, who has always been linked to hyperrealism and the use of colored pencils, with which she reproduces objects of everyday use such as shoes, plastic toy soldiers, chess, electronic cigarettes, cables or wall phones.

Mario Chiodetti, journalist at Varesenoi press, met her at the main venue of Punto Sull'Arte Gallery, at 59/61 Viale Sant’Antonio in Varese, where she has brought Icons, her latest recently finished work, a “balloon dog” perfectly packaged with a scotch tape with the word “fragile” written on it, measuring 45x45 cm. The Milanese artist is also exhibiting some of her works in the gallery’s current show, titled <20 15×15/20×20, and has several drawings on permanent display at Punto Pop of Punto Sull'Arte, San Martino della Battaglia Street in Varese.
Elegant in black and white, many piercings and tattoos, a pendant recalling her love of cats, Valentina talks about her passion for drawing, born, one might say, with her.

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