VALENTINARTE

BERNARDO PERUTA

Bernardo Peruta (Bergamo, 1973) research reflects on reality and perception. His paintings depict a fluid and dynamic reality, destined to change depending on the viewer’s perspective, just as our perception is subjective and ever-changing, influenced by past experiences, stories, and memories. By employing pure color dots, placed separately on a micro-perforated surface, his works allow the viewer’s eye to blend the painting and recognize it only when seen from a certain distance. This approach fosters an idea of awareness and harmony beyond mere appearance.

CARLO BIANCHI

Architect from Milan, twenty-five thousand days of painting. He also paints like an architect—when he enters the studio, he already has a form in mind, which he then develops with singular sensitivity and talent. Pier Maria Galli, writing about him, convincingly connects Bianchi’s artistic approach to a precise cultural heritage, to the sentimental climate of Como Rationalism. In his canvases, one can see the Lombard palette of Mario Radice, the plastic forms of Aldo Galli, and the geometric abstraction of Carla Badiali, but not only. On one hand, Bianchi’s landscapes are immersed in a metaphysical calm, while on the other, they dissolve into a dreamlike realism. His paintings demand silence and return harmony—as a true painter, he creates works that are both visually powerful and intellectually elegant: timeless icons.

FRANZ BORGHESE

Franz Borghese was born in Rome on January 21, 1941. In his city he enrolled in the art high school on via Ripetta, where his teachers included Giuseppe Capogrossi and Giulio Turcato. Borghese had his first solo exhibition in via Margutta in 1968. From the following year he abandoned the initial dramatic style of his paintings in favor of satire and sarcasm: the first characters appeared, wearing clothes and adopting gestures from the 1910s. In the 1970s he presented a series of works titled “Trial of Bourgeoisie”. From 1975, he dedicated a period of study to sculpture and exhibited a work at the X Rome Quadriennale. He held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including in Munich, London, Caracas, Madrid, Vienna, Amsterdam and New York. The artist suddenly died in his studio in 2005. Borghese’s style is well rooted in the typology of the characters and in the peremptory portrayal of their extreme behaviours.

WALTER TRECCHI

Walter Trecchi (1964, Como), described by Sergio Gaddi (Regional Councilor of Lombardy) as one of the greatest talents on the national contemporary scene, has been dedicated to landscape painting with unwavering commitment for over twenty-five years. In his latest series, titled Naturae e Metamorfosi, he has chosen to shift his focus towards environmental and naturalistic themes. If journalist Carlo Ghielmetti once described him—borrowing the words of Charles Baudelaire—as a “botanist of the sidewalk”, an analytical observer of the urban landscape and its structural components, we could now define this new phase of his research as that of a “painter of plant life.” As Stefano Mancuso has stated, higher plants are sessile yet not immobile or insensible. Vegetation can perceive signals from its surroundings, process information, listen, and react. The other series, titled Metamorfosi, focuses on the aquatic element and on the shifting reflections created by the network of branches on the mirror-like water surface, forming concentric circles or oblique geometries that seem to horizontally echo the modulations and regular grids of vertical buildings. Here, the artist returns to his monochromatic stylistic signature, transforming the canvas into a textured material composition that reveals a tactile sensitivitytoward the natural elements of water, roots, and branches. His work conveys all the luminous vibrations and sound frequencies that propagate from the stems into the aquatic and lake environment.