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IL FILO DI ARIANNA:
Valeria Scuteri between Art and Design

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TRIBUTO ALL’AMORE

Year 2019, 72x30 cms - Photo by Guido Fassio

THE BEAUTY IS IN MY SCULPTURES, AS ALREADY IN THE PAINTINGS OF THE "ONE INDIVIDUAL" CYCLE WAS THE PHYSICAL / CLASSICAL BEAUTY.

I NEED AESTHETIC BEAUTY TO BALANCE THE CONTENT ALMOST ALWAYS SUFFERED IN THE IMAGES. IT WAS AND IS A WAY TO REDEEM MAN FROM BURNING AND PAIN, BY GIVING OR RETURNING HIM, DESPITE ALL, DIGNITY

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Valeria Scuteri

extract from Arte Morbida interview n ° 1/2020

RITUALI D'AMORE E DI VESTIZIONE

November 26, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Curated by Vanna Romualdi
Narrator: Valeria Scuteri
Video by Kevo
With the patronage of: Municipality of Gambettola, Textile Museum of Prato and Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna

W. WOMEN IN ITALIAN DESIGN

DESIGN MUSEUM 9TH EDITION

Triennale of Milan, 02nd april 2016 - 19th february 2017

THE EXHIBITION OUTLINES A NEW HISTORY OF WOMEN’S ITALIAN DESIGN. IT PIECES TOGETHER FIGURES, THEORIES, DESIGNING ATTITUDES WHICH HAVE BEEN SOWN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, AND THEN HAVE SUCCEEDED, CHANGED AND EVOLVED IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

VALERIA SCUTERI IS AMONG THE WOMEN OF ITALIAN DESIGN, A SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE TO OUR PENINSULA. SHE TELLS US THE STORY OF ITALIAN DESIGN THROUGH A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF WEFTS AND WARPS, TWINES OF WOMEN’S CREATIVITY.

ACCADEMIA ALBERTINA PERFORMANCE

Premiere on the occasion of the exhibition “auteur textures” within the exposition “tramanda 2018”)
Video by Guido Fassio

ONDE D’ACCIAIO

Year 2016 - Photo by Guido Fassio

 

ONDE D’ACCIAIO

 

“I HAVE WALKED BAREFOOT NOT TO HURT YOU IN DANCING SHOES TO FOLLOW YOUR RHYTHMS IN SPIKE HEELS TO SEDUCE YOU IN STUDDED SHOES TO BE LISTENED TO. I AM TIRED”

Valeria Scuteri

L’UOMO E LA GATTA  

Pigments on canvas - 200x170 cms, year 2001

IMMAGINE CODIFICATA

 

“ITS STYLE IS MARKED BY THE CADENCE OF IMPRESSIONS, OF A “SAYING” WHICH LINKS THE “CODIFIED IMAGE” OF THE MAN WITH A TIE, CAUGHT WHILE HE IS WEARING IT, TO HIS HABITS, TO THE SEARCH OF HIS OWN DIMENSION, HIS OWN WAY OF BEING AND, AT TIMES, OF STANDING OUT”

Abstract from a review by Angelo Mistrangelo.

TERRA E VENTO

Year 2009-2010

TERRA E VENTO
ACCADEMIA ALBERTINA

Trame d'Autore exhibition included in the Tramanda 2018 review. Video by Guido Fassio.

“FOR YOU I WENT DOWN INTO THE LOWEST PITS TO CHOOSE THE BLUED COPPER TO THE HEAVENS LIMIT TO STEAL THE WHITE OF THE ANGELS’ GARMENTS AND THE ARCHANGELS’ ARROWS. I BRIBED THE CHERUBS SO THAT THEY ENLIGHTENED ME AND THE SERAPHS SO THAT THEY TAUGHT ME TO LOVE. I LOOKED FOR RED COPPER AND RESTORING GREEN FOR YOU.”

Valeria Scuteri

ARTEMORBIDA

Textile Arts Magazine

LE RONDINI

Year 2008-2015 - Photo by Guido Fassio

“ I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW TELL ME NOTHING DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OF POETRY DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY CONSCIOUS NAIVETY MY CONSCIOUS IGNORANCE I NEED THEY AT LEAST EMBODY AND REALIZE HUMAN NEEDS LET ME DREAM WITH THE UNIVERSE LET ME DREAM WITH FLAVOURS AND FLESH LET ME DREAM AND DO NOT AWAKE ME I DO NOT LIKE WHAT I SEE WHAT I SEE TASTES LIKE THE END INCERTAINTY AND SORROW WHAT I SEE IS FAR FROM WHAT I HAVE BELIEVED IN I LIKE NOTHING BUT SWALLOWS " 

Valeria Scuteri