Manuela Valenti, is a self-taught contemporary abstract and fine art artist from Venezuela. Her Italian parents moved to Venezuela, place where she was born and raised. Throughout her almost entire life Valenti has been creating art in various forms, from glass, to painting and sculpting setting her as one of the most prolific and unconventional modern artists today. Selling online since 1999, Valenti has sold her original paintings to collectors on each state in the US, Hawaii, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Japan among others.
Valenti works in a variety of mediums, creating the impression to the viewer that there are more than one artist in her studio, while the [
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Manuela Valenti, is a self-taught contemporary abstract and fine art artist from Venezuela. Her Italian parents moved to Venezuela, place where she was born and raised. Throughout her almost entire life Valenti has been creating art in various forms, from glass, to painting and sculpting setting her as one of the most prolific and unconventional modern artists today. Selling online since 1999, Valenti has sold her original paintings to collectors on each state in the US, Hawaii, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Japan among others.
Valenti works in a variety of mediums, creating the impression to the viewer that there are more than one artist in her studio, while the reality is that she's the only creator of her vast array of works. She's not afraid to pick up a brush and let her hand, memories and emotions flow.
"Many times I'm asked by gallery owners, collectors and other artists even at shows how many artists there are in my studio and they get surprised when they hear this is just the work of one artist, me, and more impressed they get when they hear I have no formal school or workshops in art."
Valenti has exhibited on galleries and international shows in New York, High Point, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Michigan, Spain, Italy and Venezuela. Because of her vast array of works Valenti's works are collected by people from all walks of life, from the entrepreneur, to the corporate manager all the way to the house wife, architect, art dealer and interior designer. Due to the nature of her works she shares two completely separate groups of collectors, the ones that love her abstract art and the ones that love her landscapes and figurative works.
"It's funny but my collectors are separated into groups if you will. I have collectors who just die for my abstract art but don't quite enjoy the representational work, and I have collectors who just plain hate my abstract art but drool over my figurative and landscapes. It is a weird and enjoyable feeling for me knowing that I have such distinctive collectors, and I wouldn't want it any other way."
Valenti's works are emotionally charged, whether they represent a moment in time or an explosion of emotions. Valenti's abstracts focus on her struggles and quite often deal with good and evil, her frustration and anger towards her own monsters and events or situations in her life. There is a constant battle perceived in her works of light against dark.... good against evil.
"I need the emotional explosion that my abstract art give me, they represent my wild rebel Aries side if you will, while I enjoy the classical calm impressionist style of my figurative and landscape oil paintings. My creative process is not easy and is painful at times as my emotions and deep feelings are yanked out of me and glued into the canvas in an intangible form of expression. Is not just splashing paint to make a good looking work to hang above a fireplace, it has to be for me more than just paint, solvents and canvas. I release and incredible amount of energy on each abstract painting while I look for peace and center my life when painting a landscape or someone I saw on the street. Most of the times I don't know when I'm done with the painting especially with my abstract art and I need to leave my studio and distract my mind with something else, but when I comeback again an hour or a day after I know what to do. It's not easy been an abstract and impressionist painter... is not easy been me".
Her impressionist works are the reflection of her inspiration for life and nature itself. Quite often when asked for her source of inspiration Valenti explains "inspiration is everywhere, on anything we see, touch and breath. Our life is filled with masterpieces, where anything and everything can become a painting, I just happen to look a little closer and pick the ones I like best." [
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