Valentina Furgani

I am an Italian-born Washington DC-based artist. I explore patterns of structures in nature. My ritual is based on the study of objects, materials and shapes which recall natural geometries. Sometimes, I use them to make compositions representing an allegorical landscape.
My works are created on a ground uneven wash of thin paint that reveals large gestural movements with a variation of pigment density. The colors are usually based on something that catches my interest in my day combined with a psychological status. I also play with a combination of sharp edges and fading surfaces, transparencies and more dense colors. The pigment is often worked into a compact smooth surface that reflects the light like a mirror.

What
On this basis, I start building a geometric, lyric, composition that reflects concepts from philosophy, literature, myth and physics about the time. My painting are abstracts or representational and recently they reflect the theories about the structure of the time. I am fascinated and obsessed with time. Encased by birth and death, it is one of the most complex problem ever explored. Time as a subject of my recent paintings is also related to what we are and our memories.

MA Political Science in Rome. Post Graduate in Oil Painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. Painting at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art.

2018, finalist at ArtGeminiPrize, Meiner Gallery, London
2018, Valentina Furgani | il disperdersi d'echi, oroincentri gallery, Rome
2016, finalist at ArtGeminiPrize, Asia House, London
2016, Broadway Arts Festival, Broadway
2016, Summer Salon, Art Factory, London
2014, Society of Women Artists` 153th Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London.
2013, Society of Women Artists` 152th Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London.
2013, Emozionarti, Domus Talenti, Rome.
2013, Il sapere creativo, Idearte Gallery, Ferrara, Italy.
2012-2013, Ten paths to the future, Imago Art Gallery, London
2012, Utopia del sembiante, Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di mosto, Venezia.
2011, I see, Chen ZiJun/Valentina Furgani, Spot Art Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2011, In the East, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China.
2011, I Coloristi, S. Gregorio Armeno, Forum Universale delle Culture, Napoli.
2011, Frammenti di storie fra la storia, Museo Storico della Fanteria, Roma.
2011, Portraits, Galleria Vista, Rome.
2011, I colori dell`anima, Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Periclitanti, Napoli.

Bibliography
Platinum, 我行· 我见, January, 2012.
Utopia del sembiante, a cura di Stefano Cecchetto, Edizioni Colorama, 2012.
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