Lisboa

Valentina Cipullo's work develops from an analysis of media images and of the resulting female archetypes created by the media. This is a reflection on external conditioning and on the identification with external models and their sociological connotations which we find in the aestheticization of women. The women portrayed by the artist can be seen as a type where a single image comes to represent the portrait of a generation that sees in media images its own conditioning and source of inspiration at the same time. Valentina Cipullo’s women seem to be straight out of glossy magazines, but despite carrying similar features, these images are transformed and carry a different message. Her women can be models like those found in magazines, but they represent the same women who get inspired and influenced by these magazines. These women talk about women in a balancing game of deep frailty and extraordinary strength and character. These works are not telling us of the bodies of these women, the beautiful traits of their faces, their poise and clothes. Her paintings talk to us through the gaze of these women, they tell us of their feelings, their life and experiences, their dreams and desires, their cheeky demands and polite rebelliousness. The images of these women are like a sequence of expressions filled with emotion and suggestive visions of sweetness, harmony and nostalgia. They manage to express the artist’s sensitivity and her vibrant lyricism. Every one of her works is a hymn to the willingness to open up, to tell a story, to express feelings and emotions with a delicate and unique sensitivity and style.