Giacomo Valentini

Valentini Giacomo was born in Rome on May 5th, 1950. As a young man, he frequented Via Margutta (which at the time was very active with studios and galleries), visiting the studios of various painters, following his uncontrollable and innate passion for art. He attended painting courses and color construction classes. After moving to Northern Italy for professional reasons, he met his current partner and relocated to Romano di Lombardia (BG). In 1974-75, together with other artists and enthusiasts like himself, he contributed to the foundation of the artistic circle “IL ROMANINO,” which is still active today. He spent eight years in North Africa for professional reasons, never ceasing to nurture his passion for painting. He currently lives and works in Romano di Lombardia (BG). He has participated in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, biennales, and competitions. Giacomo Valentini’s work in recent years seems to explore a dimension in constant expansion, where the boundary between form and absence becomes increasingly blurred. His works move in a suspended limbo, in which space and the body are protagonists of a fragile, evanescent interaction. There is a constant search for disappearance, a desire to freeze the image in the precarious moment just before the dissolution of form, as if the artist sought to capture the beat of a wing in an instant before it is lost to oblivion. The figures, often nude and reduced to indefinite shapes, seem to float in a space that turns liquid, where the very definition of the body dissolves. The faces, barely suggested and without a true connection to reality, suggest the image of beings living in a state of transition: a passage between worlds that never truly find completion. The skin, which becomes almost the symbol of flesh no longer wishing to define itself, is not just a surface, but a field of energy emanating from the figure itself, giving life to a sacredness far from the divine, but rooted in pure and primitive immanence. The painter seems to reject any form of stasis, pushing the viewer to confront an art that is always at the threshold of becoming. His painting is never finished, never fully realized: everything is suspended in a process that halts before reaching a defined end, as if the canvas were an intermediate space, between life and death, between appearance and disappearance. In this play of light and shadow, where the physicality of the body is lost in the void, a reflection on the ephemeral and the incomplete emerges. Valentini’s desire is not to offer a clear image, but rather to explore that nebulous territory where the human being becomes concept, becomes thought, but never concrete reality. His painting thus appears as a kind of philosophical quest, where form and color are not merely visual elements, but symbols of an existential condition in which the human body, while remaining at the center of the scene, dematerializes, becoming part of a continuous flow of images and meanings that evade definitive understanding. Giacomo Valentini’s work is therefore not an invitation to static contemplation, but a push to reflect on the nature of form, its fragility, and the impossibility of grasping it in all its fullness. In this sense, Valentini’s art is an art that challenges time, the body, and space, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a process that is as visual as it is conceptual, where existence is always one step before its complete manifestation.