Valerio Doddi

Valerio Doddi, artist and tattooist, was born in Rome in 1970. After many years working in Assisi — a city steeped in spirituality and art — he opened a professional tattoo studio, transforming the human body into a living canvas. For Doddi, tattooing is more than just technique: it is an authentic form of expression, a visual dialogue between skin and soul.

His artistic exploration extends far beyond skin, evolving into painting on canvas and cardboard. He brings with him the precision of tattoo design and enriches it with a vibrant exploration of colour. His works are both instinctive and composed, material yet poetic, immersed in an expressiveness that evokes abstract expressionism and the gestural language of both American and European traditions.

Doddi favours mixed media, incorporating fragments of matter — sand, small stones, fabrics, metals — fused with colour to create textured surfaces and tactile depth. His compositions resemble theatrical stage sets, where each element holds an emotional space. The strength of his brushwork is always accompanied by a profound delicacy, in a constant tension between power and introspection.

He now lives and works in the United Kingdom, where he continues his dual vocation as an artist...

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International Biennial of Chianciano Terme September 2011- (ITALY)
International Biennial of Messina December 2011- (ITALY)
[3]) 5th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MONTECARLO JUNE 2012 (Italy)
4) 50th MARILYN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION gallery city of Padua from 15 to 29 September 2012 (ITALY)
NETTUNO LECCE AWARD dec. 2012 (ITALY)
conferred with the following motivation:
"for the importance of the thematic articulations, implemented in the field of visual arts, the result of indisputable intellectual intuitions and cultural subtleties"
6). SPARTACUS AWARD Dec. 2012 (ITALY)
conferred with the following motivation:
'For the wise individual commitment, crucial and innovative, which reveals, to future generations, the essential message of peace and freedom.'
AWARD OF SOVIGLIANO CAVOUR LECCE 2012 (ITALY)
'awarded as an honorific and meritorious artist of the city of Sovigliano Cavour'
[8] Collective Art Exhibition "An Opera for Florence"
from 19 to 26 January 2013 (ITALY)
9) APOLLO AWARD Lecce Dec. 2013 (Italy)
with the following motivation:
"for having sown, with his choices, applied to contemporary interpretative strategies, the Gem of an exclusive as well as personal investigation, aimed at identifying new models of thought"
[10]) SPECIAL A...