Real Art News: Urrrgghh .... This Fucking Place !!!!

Tuesday 14 August 2018

Urrrgghh .... This Fucking Place !!!!

Plymouth !!

well what can be said … every time I think about writing about this cancerous hole in the ground that has been aggressively stuffed with a rough concrete fist ! …. I wince !! then I despair !! then I swear that I am leaving and never coming back ! … then I do … and the whole circle begins again !! regardless of what assholes 'in charge' … regardless of vocational pursuit / romantic interest or whatever the fucking weather is doing … this place and the people that have run it for the past few decades …. blow the proverbial fat one !!

and now they want to spend 600Million on a brand new city centre rejuvenation scheme …. well I am sorry if I don't have a great deal of faith in the organizations that have brought us such calamities as the drakes shopping mall , the life centre , that horrible tower of Sauron they have just built to house all of the students that are no longer applying for places since they hiked the price of tuition through the roof ….. which is having a catastrophic knock on effect with all the poor suckers that git stuck with the false promise of the buy to let mortgage ….. which in turn has affected the overall rental market in the city ….

we don't have any shops left … just a few corporate coffee outlets , and a few estate agents ( all offering great incentives on buy to let …..???!! ) and the supermarkets that keep the general population drip fed on a chemical poison that will just about fuel them through some 8 hour monotony !! of course vocational monotony is all that's left … since the banks and the governments in their pockets collapsed the economies !!

unfortunately this as I am writing it … although was entitled ' Plymouth ' I think this actually represents most urban areas in the country right now !

Plymouth However really does offer a shining Salute to the foulness of the shitstorm we have inflicted on ourselves … all for the sake of another mans greed !! the age of insanity … the age of the charlatan indeed !!

so apparently the Brexit bus left the boot open … and Plymouth city council managed to make off with 600million pounds worth of that fictitious budget … and they are going to pay themselves very well … while they strategize and formulate the where and whys of stuffing another cinema / mall / student accommodation …. into what could have otherwise been a very pleasant place to live and work !!!

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The Signature Style

Part of the ongoing body of works that have been come to be known as ' the Valerio Signature Style ' that has now come to encompass independent sub headings within the genre, including , ' The mandalas ' , ' The Orgy Balls ' , ' Studies of the Female Form ' , ' Cerebral ' and ' Unorthodox'

A manner of works I began working on as a child , to attempt to keep away from over embellishing them or over anthropomorphising or patterning , just to stay in the most grounding earthy tones and let the mind wander through the undulations to assist in the firing of the imagination

'The Under-exaggerated Origins of V'

After studying at Plymouth College of Art and Design, Valerio continued his studies at Sheffield Hallam University and Greenwich University and West Kent College.

Now based between his studio in Cornwall and Amsterdam, he is able to collaborate with some of the best known names in Art and Architecture on an international scale as well as here at home in the south west.

Valerio Describes his own work as ' dreamlike manifestations, evoking less than circumstantial references to archetypal memories of landscapes, and local geographies, figurative studies and all in between that which is captured in the veld of the diverse experiences that make up a lifetime.'

Chris Burchell, Art Critic and Curator of the Wharf Gallery , Tavistock 2010

written a few years ago now.

Valerio has been a keen art student. he has made excellent progress, demonstrating an imaginative and innovative response to a variety of stimuli, and has produced some outstanding units of course work.

Valerio has improved his ability to draw from observation with increasing skill and enjoys working in a variety of media, he has shown ability to draw from experience and imagination. Valerio has produced paintings of unusual quality, and shows a real awareness of the use of colour. His heightened critical awareness of other artists and cultures is an integral and successful aspect of his own work and he works well independently. Valerio's talent recommends him without question.

1998 Sue Lord artist and teacher

What do you make of the artist as a person?

Valerio , the man is a Raving Maniac, A genuine charicature of what an artist should be, hes eloquent and polite soft spoken and gentile , unless he is working on something of particular focus then he can be irritable , and unreasonable , never knowing if he is about to burst into song , or scream and shout a series of profanities against whatever is vexing him most at the time, even visitors to the gallery , ever outspoken and provocative toward debate, the constant array of models and well wishers that tend to come with the Artists Gallery appearances , can make even a quiet day seem lively!

Elusive is something of an understatement with this Artist and appearances are Rare as are his lectures and public exposures but a keen collaborator you will find the signature Valerio influence in many places you really wouldnt be expecting to find it, A very strong talent for such a young Artist already exhibiting his well developed style so that it is instantly recognizable, a Talent and a Character rapidly gaining in influence and popularity, and deservedly so!

T. McCracken Owner of The Tiffany Gallery East Looe

101 Reasons....

From the series of sketchbook illustrations that eventually became the published book of illustrations ' 101 Reasons to choose a vocation in the creative industries ' the original series started out as a series of autobiographical sidenotes in my working sketchbooks, a clear homage to the work of Ralph Steadman and Hunter Thompson, are little cartoons I have been doing during those moments when you say to yourself ' what the actual F**k ??!!' which can happen a lot in this job !! the original set of sketchbook thumbnails were each revised for the publication and have always proved a great hit in their own right whenever they have gone on display at exhibition . Now in the 11th year of ongoing production, the series now consists of over 200 hundred images depicting recollections or reflections from Working Corporate positions in 2000 -my first pop up gallery ' The Arts Hole in Cornwall '2006- 'The Green Star House ' Design and build Project 2009- through the political and legal battles of the 'Valerio Institute'2013- to our most recent projects of ' Why Not ' in Amsterdam and the latest ART B&B and education projects running in parallel in Cornwall u.k and Amsterdam N.L 2016/2017 It Really has been quite a ride

The Signature Style

Part of the ongoing body of works that have been come to be known as ' the Valerio Signature Style ' that has now come to encompass independent sub headings within the genre, including , ' The mandalas ' , ' The Orgy Balls ' , ' Studies of the Female Form ' , ' Cerebral ' and ' Unorthodox'

A manner of works I began working on as a child , to attempt to keep away from over embellishing them or over anthropomorphising or patterning , just to stay in the most grounding earthy tones and let the mind wander through the undulations to assist in the firing of the imagination