Romano Valsky

I started my artistic practice in 2020-2021. Before that, I wrote about art and artists.

Born in 1975 at the foot of a stormy and changing sea, escorted by chalk cliffs, I keep deep inside me these contrasting, colorful and changing sensations that will serve me during my artistic studies in faculty.

After four years, I support my Master of Fine Arts which articulates writing and plastic experiments: the mixtures of drawings-paintings-collages appear in a neo-expressionist and dadaist perspective; they try to replay, at the level of the mobilized pulsional devices, the famous child-like polymorphic perversities of the modern plastics of which Lyotard speaks about modernist avant-gardes.

My Master’s director chases away my fears of an academic university and opens me to the complexity of the drawings of Grosz, Steinberg, Vallotton… Finally, it is possible to write, compose and think as an artist, to consider an aesthetic intelligence.

On this enthusiastic momentum, I decided to continue with a DEA and a PhD thesis in Arts, defended in Paris in 2007 on the notion of «living forms». The publication of a book about the experimental film poet Jonas Mekas in 2014 marks the end of this writing period of my life, even if texts are ...

2000-2007 PhD in Arts, Paris, France
1998-1999 Master of Fine Arts, Amiens, France
1995-1998 DEUG and Bachelor in Fine Arts, Amiens