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Valeria Vaccaro was born in Turin in 1988 where she lives and works.

After attending the School of Fine Arts in Turin, Valeria Vaccaro studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Albertina in Turin. She has been exhibiting since 2005, between 2013 and 2015 she participated in the JCE (Young European Creation) traveling Biennial and took part in the “Exhibit" Turin exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castello di Rivara. In 2017, on the occasion of the Art Prize CBM, she won a special mention from the city of Turin.

His sculptures and work address the theme of fire and combustion as a dynamic purifying element that elevates all things to a higher level: fire not as an element of destruction but as a creative force capable of transforming and shaping matter.

The common thread in Valeria Vaccaro's work is the representation of the combustion process rather than the faithful reproduction of the wood material, grain after grain. Each sculpture is a snapshot of this process where the moment is captured and its movement becomes eternal. A fleeting moment frozen in time thanks to marble, a material that has always represented eternity.

Everyday objects, without aesthetic value, burn but the transformation they undergo is not limited only to a mutation of the material: this brings them to our level, gives them another value, a key for which gives them the status work of art.

Fire and burning are known to have symbolic meanings which can be attributed to two key aspects: fire moving from an element of destruction and judgment to a metaphor for renewal. Disused burned pallets and crates, contemporary familiar wrecks belong to a daily life we are accustomed to, synonymous with desolation, waste and abandonment, rather than being in warehouses and depots, take up undue space at the exhibition center.

These decontextualized objects, passed from an inherently utilitarian status, leftovers of industry at the time and art now, offered as a work of art to visitors, while the container unexpectedly becomes the content.

It is interesting to note that the language used by Valeria Vaccaro to express herself is marked by a succession of tangible visual oxymorons on several levels that accumulate.

The opposite / opposing concepts refer to a single object, thus generating the unexpected forms of a paradox: the wood cools, the marble burns and chars, the crates contain nothing but are in fact the work of art itself.

Any sculpture, any practical representation of the oxymoron as a rhetorical figure of the contradiction of a term with its opposite, goes against the rules and common sense, bypassing meaning, surprise and displacement.


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Valeria Vaccaro was born in Turin in 1988 where she lives and works.

After attending the School of Fine Arts in Turin, Valeria Vaccaro studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Albertina in Turin. She has been exhibiting since 2005, between 2013 and 2015 she participated in the JCE (Young European Creation) traveling Biennial and took part in the “Exhibit" Turin exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castello di Rivara. In 2017, on the occasion of the Art Prize CBM, she won a special mention from the city of Turin.

His sculptures and work address the theme of fire and combustion as a dynamic purifying element that elevates all things to a higher level: fire not as an element of destruction but as a creative force capable of transforming and shaping matter.

The common thread in Valeria Vaccaro's work is the representation of the combustion process rather than the faithful reproduction of the wood material, grain after grain. Each sculpture is a snapshot of this process where the moment is captured and its movement becomes eternal. A fleeting moment frozen in time thanks to marble, a material that has always represented eternity.

Everyday objects, without aesthetic value, burn but the transformation they undergo is not limited only to a mutation of the material: this brings them to our level, gives them another value, a key for which gives them the status work of art.

Fire and burning are known to have symbolic meanings which can be attributed to two key aspects: fire moving from an element of destruction and judgment to a metaphor for renewal. Disused burned pallets and crates, contemporary familiar wrecks belong to a daily life we are accustomed to, synonymous with desolation, waste and abandonment, rather than being in warehouses and depots, take up undue space at the exhibition center.

These decontextualized objects, passed from an inherently utilitarian status, leftovers of industry at the time and art now, offered as a work of art to visitors, while the container unexpectedly becomes the content.

It is interesting to note that the language used by Valeria Vaccaro to express herself is marked by a succession of tangible visual oxymorons on several levels that accumulate.

The opposite / opposing concepts refer to a single object, thus generating the unexpected forms of a paradox: the wood cools, the marble burns and chars, the crates contain nothing but are in fact the work of art itself.

Any sculpture, any practical representation of the oxymoron as a rhetorical figure of the contradiction of a term with its opposite, goes against the rules and common sense, bypassing meaning, surprise and displacement.

What is Valeria Vaccaro’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Abstract Sculptors

When was Valeria Vaccaro born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1988