Valentina Valentini

KEY QUOTE FROM MY POETIC PHILOSOPHY:
“I don’t necessarily try to depict a place as it appears; rather, I try to capture its atmosphere, its light, its silence, and the feeling it has left within me.”

BETWEEN IMMAGINATION AND MATTER
I encountered art at a very young age, when I didn’t yet know it would become such a profound part of my life. As a child, I drew for the sheer pleasure of inventing worlds, atmospheres, and places that existed first and foremost in my imagination.
That curiosity led me to art high school and then to the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where I earned a degree in Painting. I then began my professional career in the world of animation as a set designer, working on TV series and feature films and, over the years, transitioning from hand-painted sets to digital techniques.
It has been a long journey through images, atmospheres, colors, and imaginary worlds—an experience that has profoundly enriched the way I perceive and construct space. Among my most important collaborations is the one with Bruno Bozzetto, with whom I’ve worked on several projects. In 2024, he entrusted me with all the set designs for the short film *Sapiens?*, an experience I undertook with particular enthusiasm and which I consider one of th...

- Graduated from the “Jajech” State Art High School in Brera, Milan - 1993

-Graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan - 1999