Patrizia Dalla Valle is a mosaic artist and sculptress. Her training is based on the study of the great Byzantine and Ravenna mosaic tradition, as well as the languages of the historical avant - garde an d the most recent developments of the new art scene. This is the origin of the production that has made her famous, which combines traditional mosaic technique in a unique language with forms, suggestions and supports that are linked to the most experiment al practices of the contemporary scene.
Patrizia Della Valle
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In the artist's poetic mosaic becomes a pure, autonomous language, capable of reinventing completely new and original forms and suggestions, while keeping an eye on the great ancient tradition. Thus, in Patrizia Dal la Valle's sculptures, concave and convex forms appear, often covered with golden mosaic, recalling the apses and c olumns of ancient cathedrals. A s well as certain effects of lines and colours recall the decorativeness of fourteenth - century painting, and h er monumental golden thrones, with their ogival - shaped backs, also recall the atmosphere of the Gothic period. At other times, Patrizia Dalla Valle's mosaics seem to evoke the movement and formal variety of the universe.
However, although his compositions often trace themes and suggestions taken from antiquity, they never fall into the mere re - proposal of archaic techniques . M emory, as well as the quote of subjects and themes taken from the history of art and archaeology, are actually integral parts of the artist's work, all centred on strongly contemporary themes and atmospheres: elements, therefore, which only apparently seem to contradict each other, but showing deeply a research of great historical rigour , great courage and formal novelty.
Patrizia Dal la Valle was born in Budrio (BO) and lives in Prada di Russi (RA). After graduating in scientific disciplines, her interest for art disciplines bega n and turned her constant research and experimentation. After an initial propensity for ceramic technique she then moved on to mosaic, privileging its language and rereading its history. Numerous and prestigious are the personal and collective exhibitions organized in Italy and abroad, supported by important critical partecipa tions. The artist has already been a guest in important public and private spaces, in particular, Matera - Complex San Nicola dei Greci, Church of the Madonna delle Virtù in Sasso Barisano (2008), Venice - Galleria La Fenice Art Space (2015), Rome, Villa Torlonia Museums, Casina delle Civette (2016). More recently, the artist has exhibited her works at the Pavilion of the Syrian Arab Republic during the 57th Venice Biennale; at the National Archaeological Museum of Venice; at the Scuderie di Palazzo Ortolani in Voltana (Ravenna ).