Valter Lavagetto

In our hyper-technological and hyper-kinetic world, Valter Lavagetto's paintings represent a brave and unconventional choice. 

His works have the scent of a Time lost and found, the pleasure of memory, the poetic beauty and melancholy of the everyday objects. 

It is a return to painting and craftsmanship linked to the postmodernism movements, started in the late '70s that in the figurative art found its main expression in the Trans-Avantguarde and German Neo-Expressionism. 

This is a "poetic of objects" with metaphysical hints, verged into Pop, in the evocative amazement of a physical reality that is mostly an inner reality. 

Valter delves his memory and retrieves bits of lived and forgotten history that take shape in simple and solitary objects, silent witnesses of a Past represented by images often fragmented, incomplete and cut for the choice of unusual visual angles. 

His eye singles out and circumscribes, fixes on the canvas a detail, a particular: thus a chair, bicycles, flowers, even the pegs gain an existential dignity. The bright colors, a Fauvist recollection, contribute to create alienating images excluded from the flow of Time, stocked in mental spaces and transfigured into a metaphysical dimension. 

                                     Daniele Grosso Ferrando