ARTISTS Alessandro Valeri
A Dialogue of Archetypes
This research is rooted in a solid art-historical awareness that spans classical canons, Renaissance proportions, and extends to the surrealist suggestions of artists such as Man Ray and Salvador Dalí.
Valeri’s female figures evoke the archetypes of the Great Mother found in Mediterranean cultures: from Cybele, the Anatolian goddess of nature and fertility, to Ceres, goddess of the earth and agriculture, and Aphrodite, who, according to myth, was born from the foam of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mediterranean thus emerges as a kind of cultural amniotic fluid, a symbolic placenta that unites different peoples and civilizations in a millennia-long dialogue.
Within the exhibition path, works from the Sepphoris series are also presented, a project developed in 2011 following the artist’s visit to an orphanage in Tzippori, near Nazareth. (The Sepphoris cycle by Alessandro Valeri was presented in Venice in 2015 at the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.)
The work reflects on the “normality of goodness,” portraying through images and installations the everyday life of a fragile yet real community. The artworks from the project were donated to the orphanage, and their circulation within the art system actively contributes to supporting the institution.
Through photography, installation, and visual poetry, Valeri constructs an artistic space that invites the viewer to reflect, transforming the artwork into a place of experience and collective awareness.
“Archetypes in Dialogue”; Curatorial text by Giorgio Calcara (summary)
01 ALESSANDRO VALERI
A DIALOGUE OF ARCHETYPES
Alessandro Valeri Exhibition
56° BIENNALE
Sepphoris
PANORAMA – NEW YORK
The New York works represent one of the most powerful cores of Alessandro Valeri’s visual research
THE CIRCUS
“The Circus” is a photographic series born from Alessandro Valeri’s immersive experience inside the Togni Circus in 1999